DEXTRA SMART: Driverless Mobile App. Run Car

Amiraj Charitable Trust Established, Amiraj College of Engineering and Technology in the year 2012. The College is approved by AICTE and GTU as well as ISO 9001:2015 certified. With currently 600 students studying Engineering in five different branches namely Civil, Mechanical, Computer, Electrical and EC. We are a forward looking, modern engineering institution with an objective to provide high quality education and focus on applied research. The institute currently is focusing on Science beyond Engineering by providing exclusive Skill development training programs for its existing students. The extra exposure with respect to skill development (Over and above Engineering) is not only making them conscious about skills and personality but it’s also helping the youth to align themselves with Honorable PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA – “Shri Narendrabhai Modi’s” vision of “MAKE IN INDIA” CAMPAIGN.

Science Beyond Engineering ismost innovatively designed skill set training program to provide completely life changing superior skill sets, to the ambitious Amiraj engineering generation of Gujarat. The Skill development training campaign integrates Engineering knowledge with world class Communication, Management and Marketing skills, keeping in mind the industry demands, corporate ethics, global competition and changing trends. The education, experience and environment in the training programprovides students an edge by transforming them into personalities showcasing positive attitude, intellectually stimulating knowledge, world class communication skills, Meticulous Managerial skills and Creative Marketing Mantras.Picturing a brief idea about the punch line that we bear, Science beyond Engineering one can go by the literal meaning of these words. Engineers and scientists invent, Entrepreneurs commercialize it, and finally we, laymen, use it. While in all these hustle and bustle, Amiraj Group thought of a little out of the box, of not keeping the science confined to the realms of the engineering only, rather extending our knowledge to the entire scope of science and taking it beyond engineering.Science beyond engineering is creating a platform for Amiraj faculties and students to exhibit and focus on skill sets that matter. Skill sets like leadership, innovations, communication, listening, management, teamwork, stress management and various other personality skill sets that will necessarily help them gain superiority and edge in all their professional endeavors. The institution under its drive for innovation believes in the idea of ‘You see it; we shape it.’ So as a part of innovation drive where the youth is pushed to not only learn engineering but also to create their own engineering.These Amiraj fraternity, spearheaded by faculty supported by students came together with the idea of AmirajDextra Smart: Driverless mobile app. run car. This little idea has triggered its shots at a larger platform. The out of the box idea, of innovations, of enhancement is at the roots of the various ongoing projects at Amiraj and the one major innovation that we are going to talk aboutAmirajDextra Smart: Driverless mobile app.run car.

The Car:

Autonomous vehicles are becoming the talk of the town in the automation world. Autonomous vehicles are the ones which can drive themselves without human supervision or input. While the unmanned vehicles are the vehicles which are either controlled remotely or perhaps operate autonomously. Vehicles can also operate semi autonomously; taking some control of the aspects of their driving, whilst the human driver can retain control over the other factors. This smart car is an Android application based controlled car, and can be classified as autonomous unmanned car controlled and operated remotely. The ‘Driver Only’ is the autonomy level for the car where the vehicle is entirely under human control but may have some automated systems.The design of the technology of the car is such that its usage can be extended to the sophisticated artificial intelligence and robotics sector, alongside for doing jobs which are dangerous for humans. All in all it has a very long list of the fields of application. The basic idea of the project was to design the driverless car for the Indian road system. It could have been much simpler had we used the GPS and Video surveillance system, but the obstacle here is, to use GPS one needs a properly defined mapping system of the area which is not up to the mark yet.

Features:

Autonomous cars are robots capable of unmanned driving in an unknown urban area. Research in autonomous cars have received a broader interest in recent years and unfolded many insights for robot systems in different applications. The industry, especially automobile manufacturers, are eager to improve advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), such as lane departure warning and intelligent speed adaptation systems while the military is strongly interested in unmanned drones for military purposes. From a Computer Science perspective autonomous vehicles function as a research foundation for progress in machine learning, computer vision, fusion of sensor data, path planning, decision making and intelligent autonomous behavior.
While unmanned driving is the ultimate goal, in the development process of autonomous vehicles human drivers must be present in case of failures. A remote control is a perfect instrument to send commands to the vehicles as well as receiving status data from without actually remaining in the car. Smart Mobile phones possess the necessary computing capabilities and sensor functionalities to act as a remote control. The remote can toggle between completely autonomous mode, where the phone acts as a mobile monitoring panel, and manual mode, where the operator can use the phone to steer and drive the car. A human operator sent commands for the desired position of steering wheel, brake pedal as well as gear shift signals to the car. Additionally, a video stream from mounted cameras on top of the car is broadcasted back to the Smart mobile Phone as feedback.
A remote control is typical for client-server architecture whereas the client software resides in the remote sending out control signals to the server system to be controlled. The server is responsible to accept or reject these commands and execute them accordingly. As of a feedback service the server may return an answer back to the client.