Team Leader John Sedig Communications / Documentation Kevin Nennig Webmaster / Software Design Matt Graves Hardware / Electrical Design Josh Mandich Software Design Alex Wesenberg Team Advisor Arun Somani
o Many bicyclists are injured due to car related accidents on the road each year. o If a bicyclist could be warned of rear approaching vehicles, this could greatly reduce number of bicyclist involved in accidents. o Primary Goal - To design and develop a low cost vehicle alert accessory for cyclists
o The device must communicate via the ANT+ protocol to an Edge 500 Garmin head unit o Must be able to detect cars going from speeds 10mph-70mph o Must detect vehicles in the range 1m-100m behind the rear of the bicycle
o Unsuitable detection hardware o Unsuitable detection accuracy o Loss of Team Member
o Hough Line Detection o Optical Flow o Haar Object Detection (Principle Component Analysis Replacement)
Edge 500 Head Unit ANT+ Tranceiver Beagleboard -XM H1214FICS Lens 5M MT9P031 Camera Board Lithium Ion Battery
o Max current Draw : 900mA o Lithium polymer ion (3.7V) battery: 2000mAh
o ANT+ Transceiver communicates with head unit on Windows o ANT+ Transceiver recognized by Linux
o Feb 29 th : Interlock done o March 7th: working prototype on advisor’s desk o Image capturing on Beagleboard o ANT+ to connect with Garmin head-unit via Beagleboard o March 20th: Enclosure for the components