Autonomous driving cars
The ATeam, a student team that works in close cooperation with Fontys research group ‘Future power trains’, is striving to create a fully autonomous vehicle, by adding sensors and software to a Toyota Prius. One of the many functions is being able to park autonomously. And that’s where the assignment of this project starts.
Project start
At the start of the project the Toyota Prius already had a parallel parking controller. This controller worked by using the input from a single leddar sensor to determine a path which is then followed by the car.
Challenge
The challenge in this project was to design a new controller and improve on an older controller at the same time. According to the assignment these new controllers had to contribute to a smoother parking maneuver and a more reliable and more functional complete system.
Expectations
Our expectations were that this project would be reasonably easy to start with, due to being able to use an already existing model. This turned out to be a lot harder than we initially thought it would be. The reason being that we had to work and improve upon models and other work delivered by people who weren’t involved with the project anymore. It took us a lot of time before we finally understood the entire model, that controls the many functions the Prius has. After we put some time into understanding how everything was hooked up it was relatively easy to work with the model.
Results
The results of this project are the two working controllers, one for the parallel parking function and one for the 90 degrees parking function. Along with these two controllers we delivered a manual that is supposed to make it easier for other people to work with the models we improved and built.
Student team
- Jorn Marschalk
- Pim Kempen
- Rick Gijzen
- Glenn Visser
- Tim van Tiel
Fontys Tutor
- Rob Gulikers
Fontys client
- Bas Geleijns
- Sander Baas
Fontys coach
- Ronald Scheer
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Over Ronald Scheer
Ronald is parttime werkzaam als docent bij Fontys hogeschool voor Engineering in Eindhoven. Binnen Engineering is hij verbonden aan het lectoraat voor Robotica & Mechatronica. Vanuit het lectoraat is hij betrokken bij de minor Adaptive Robotics. Tevens is coach van het succesvolle studenten team 'Robohub Eindhoven'. Ronald is bovendien coach van studententeam 'Team Rembrandts 4481'. Dit team werd in 2019 wereldkampioen in de wereldwijde First Robotics Competitie. Bovendien is Ronald gespreksleider van podcast series over het snijvlak tussen Onderwijs, Techniek & Innovatie. Alle afleveringen zijn te vinden op alle bekende kanalen, zoals Spotify, Soundcloud, Google Podcasts en Apple Podcasts. Naast zijn werk bij Fontys publiceert Ronald de podcast serie 'De Toekomst van Onderwijs: Oplossingen voor een veranderende arbeidsmarkt'. Over dit genoemde onderwerp maakt Ronald niet alleen een podcast serie, maar ook een nieuwsbrief. In dat kader geeft hij ook regelmatig lezingen en treedt hij op als dagvoorzitter op beurzen & online conferenties. Ronald Scheer is afgestudeerd aan de faculteit der Toegepaste Onderwijskunde van de Universiteit Twente. De podcast series 'Wij zijn Fontys' en 'De Toekomst van Onderwijs' worden geproduceerd en gepubliceerd op persoonlijke titel.
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