April 2, 2008: BART LAB Intelligent Vehicle Team advances to the final round TIVC 2008

BART LAB’s Intelligent Vehicle Team, “BART LAB Vehiculum,” passed through the final round in the 2008 Thai Intelligent Vehicle Challenge organized by Thai Robotics Society, Asian Institute of Technology and Seagate. Every car in the TIVC 2008 must autonomously drive along the road in the Bangkok Racing Circuit by itself without human-control. These cars must have their own navigation and controlling systems installed. A vintage Mercedes-Benz was used as the platform, and was modified the steering, braking and accelerating systems. The Vehiculum was mainly navigating by Computer Vision system, combined of a stereo-camera (Bumble-Bee®), and two left/right FireWire cameras for emergency control. Besides, the Vehiculum was also integrated with a bunch of GPSs and e-compass to combine their sensing information with the Computer Vision system.