Cedarville University

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Team

This year (2007) will be our fourth consecutive year to enter the IGVC competition. The competition requires teams to build a small autonomous vehicle that can navigate an outdoor course painted with white lines and avoid obstacles.

2007 Competition:

Cedarville at 2007 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competion

 

 

2006 Competition:

This year we improved again with a 283' run on the autonomous course. This year's vehicle featured a wireless LAN including a PDA for remote control and for receiving telemetry back from the vehicle. This year we also competed in the Navigation challenge for the first time with a GPS system donated by Garmin International. THANKS GARMIN! We will post our official results here once we get them.

2006 IGVC Team with Yellow Jacket 2006 - From left to right, Professor Tuinstra, Tim Linden, Luke Snider, Joe Eisentrager, and Tyler Bixel. Not pictured: Josh Blackburn and Dan Gallahger.

Michigan Senator Carl Levin made a visit to this year's competition. Here he is conversing with students.

Yellow Jacket 2006 runs on the autonomous course.

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2005 Competition:

In 2005 we placed 9th out of about 30 in the autonomous challenge in Traverse City, Michigan. See the pictures below.

Here is Yellow Jacket 2005 navigating the course:

Woops! Wish those barrells weren't there!

Which way do I go? Which way do I go?