This week I mainly focused on finalising some of the details for our project. We met with the TA to discuss some of the details, including what kind of RC car to use, and whether or not we should build one from scratch or retro fit an existing one. After some discussion, we decided to build our own car, since Joel has experience building a car with 4 motors. Furthermore, I also looked into some of the details regarding perception. I looked at previous work where students used LIDAR for object detection, and found out that most used some form of odometry to make the path planning more accurate. I then looked into efficient implement some form of odometry. I considered both using a eagle-eye camera and also hall-effect sensors, as both technologies have been used for autonomous RC cars in the past.
Looking forward, I want to finalise and discuss the odometry setup and continue finalising parts and start looking into possible perception algorithms.