Autonomous Path Planning

Doosan Bobcat Engineering, 2020–21

Liaison(s): Jonathan Roehrl, John Pfaff, Kyle Thorson, Troy Kraft
Advisor(s): Matthew Spencer
Students(s): Caleb Norfleet (TL), Omar Aleman, Erik Meike, Varun Singh (F), Caitlin Huang (S), Tejus Rao (S), Anneka Noe (F)

The 2020-2021 Doosan Bobcat Clinic team aims to advance obstacle avoidance capabilities of an autonomous Bobcat track loader. This project is a continuation of a previous Clinic project with Bobcat, during which students demonstrated autonomous navigation on the track loader. New advances this year include redesigning the system to run on the lower-memory embedded Bobcat hardware platform, integrating a new radar sensor, and improving the smoothness, speed, and consistency of obstacle avoidance to enable autonomous driving at 6 MPH.