Overview

Project Drive is a year long student run project hosted and funded by the IEEE Branch of the University of California, San Diego. The premise of this project is to build a 1/10 scale fully autonomous race car with no GPS that would compete in the SparkFun 2017 Speed Demons Autonomous Vehicle Competition.

After a full year of incredible hard work and dedication from every member of the team, we are proud to say that we have successfully completed in the SparkFun Speed Demons Competition, placing #1 in the higher education category and #2 overall!! Since all members came in with very little knowledge on the technology/software we were using (ROS, OpenCV, Sensors, etc.) and we built the vehicle without the supervision of any advisors, we are extremely proud to see how much we have accomplished and learned throughout this short, yet fast-paced journey.

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This website is a way for us to not only showcase our work, but also shed light on the various challenges and struggles we encountered along the way as newcomers to the autonomous vehicle field. By sharing how we tackled each of those challenges, we hope this site will provide helpful insights and tips that will be the catalyst for discovering new autonomous vehicle ideas and techniques, while at the same time inspiring others getting into autonomous vehicles to test the water and take part on this amazing expedition.

Timeline

For those whom are interested in the journey we took to get to where we are today, we have also documented much of our progress which can be seen below.