The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition: Intelligent Teams Creating Intelligent Ground Vehicles

Abstract

The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) has challenged university student teams to develop, test, and compete with their intelligent vehicles for over 13 years. The competition was initially founded and still sponsored by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The IGVC has been hosted by Oakland University (OU) and U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) since its beginning and supported by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) for the past 11 years. The contest is open to all engineering schools and requires student teams to design and build autonomous vehicles of golf cart or smaller size that compete on two challenging courses on an open field. The contest also includes a design competition, run in conjunction with the performance events, in which all teams are required to participate.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA594317

Entities

People

  • Bernard L. Theisen
  • Gerald R. Lane

Organizations

  • Applied Research Associates (United States)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Energy
  • Fabrication
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Ground Vehicles
  • Kalman Filters
  • Manufacturing
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Transportation
  • United States
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Vehicles

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy