Robot Racing 2011 Videos

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I have created a playlist of the Robot Racing 2011 videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL91D70F16D002C28A

Team Invincible invited to demo robots at Science Rendezvous 2010

We have been invited to demo our robots at ‘Science Rendezvous 2010′, which is an Ontario wide science festival to be held on Saturday, May 8, 2010. (Website: www.sciencerendezvous.ca/windsor ). One of the festival events is a street fair (on Sunset between Wyandotte and University) from 10 am – 4pm where Departments/Research groups/Student groups are putting on interactive exhibits and demos for a public audience. On display would be the intelligent autonomous robots of various size and shapes.
Hope to see everyone there for a fun-filled day!

Watch the video here:

CTV coverage of the 2009 Robot Racing

Watch the CTV news coverage of the 2009 Robot Racing event here.

Intelligent Car Initiative 2008-2010

The intelligent car initiative was proposed to combine the three main areas of research at the Computer Vision and Sensing Systems Laboratory: Driver Assistance, Vehicle Guidance and Navigation and Active/Passive Safety. The video demonstrates elements of lane detection, vehicle detection, road-sign detection, pedestrian detection, and Traffic Light Detection. The project is led by Siddhant Ahuja, software lead is Thanh Nguyen and the academic supervisor is Dr. Jonathan Wu. Fore more information please visit: uwindsor.ca/cvss

Video Demos: Stereo-Vision, Area Based Algorithm

This is a demo of the raw-result obtained by using the area based algorithm for Stereo-vision.

Result after filtering the results:

A car that can drive itself

View CBC News’ coverage of our team below:

When a machine can think, its said to have artificial intelligence. Frankenstein and R2D2 are two examples from fiction. But there are plenty of applications in the real world too, and thats the topic of the Canadian conference of Artificial Intelligence taking place this week at the University of Windsor. Tom Taylor has more.

Surrounded by A-I: Students, industry experts design latest upgrades, gadgets and gizmos

View the A-Channel’s news coverage of our Team at:

Surrounded by A-I: Students, industry experts design latest upgrades, gadgets and gizmos

Imagine being at university surrounded by “artificial” intelligence.
While there’s no shortage of the old fashioned kind the St. Denis Centre was today transformed into a display of  A-I.
A-Channel’s Priya Mann reported on this interesting exploration into future technology that we could see on our streets in a few years.

Windsor Team Invincible wins the Autonomous Racing Challenge 2008

Competing for the first time, Team Invincible from Electrical and Computer Engineering department, University of Windsor took the first place in the Autonomous Racing Challenge 2008 held in University of Waterloo this year. The competition that took place on Saturday (April 26), involves racing fully autonomous vehicles head-to-head on an outdoor track consisting of a drag race competition, a circuit competition and static judging.

The team comprised of the students from the Computer Vision and Sensing Systems (CVSS) Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Siddhant Ahuja (Sid), and Thanh Nguyen) and a Belle River District high school student doing his volunteering at the CVSS lab (Michael Stolarchuk). As part of the course project (88-554: Automotive sensor’s course with Dr. Jonathan Wu), the team lead by Siddhant Ahuja (Sid) worked night and day on this project. Undergraduate supporting members to the team (working on their capstone project for engineering) included: Saket Sood, Mohammad Bidabadi, and Rameez Syed. “Being part of this team was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and opportunity for me. The kind of learning I did, I could never have had sitting in a classroom. We had many struggles with different sensors, and we thought about giving up many times. Then we came up with the idea of the single sensor (or camera), and it all worked out” said Michael Stolarchuk.

The project attracted funding from BASF ($1k) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ($500), and was supported by the Don Tersigni (Electronic Technologist with the department). With a simple yet sophisticated design involving a single vision system and state-of-the-art algorithms, the robot was able to autonomously navigate itself through the race track. “I was quite proud of all the hard work the team put into the robot and I was glad to see it pay off,” commented Don Tersigni (Electronic Technologist and Departmental support).

Second year engineering students from the University of Windsor also put a team into the competition called “ISysDT”. Members of the team who travelled to Waterloo were Dan MacDonald, Tony Choi, Rifat “Disha” Chowdhury and Gagandeep Dulay. Dan MacDonald said “the hardest part of the competition was the learning curve and the best part was team work, representing the school and learning new things”.