Unmanned Vehicle System Development
Spring 2020
Instructor(s): Dr. Manfred Huber, CSE; Dr. Kambiz Alavi, EE and Dr. Brian Huff, IMSE
Office Number: Dr. Manfred Huber Office : 128 ERB or 522 ERB
Dr. Brian Huff Office : 420-N WH or 416 WH
Dr. Kambiz Alavi Office : 524 NH
Office Telephone Number: Dr. Manfred Huber: 817-272-2345
Dr. Brian Huff 817-272-3053
Dr. Kambiz Alavi 817-272-5633
Email Address: Dr. Manfred Huber: huber@uta.edu
Dr. Brian Huff bhuff@uta.edu
Dr. Kambiz Alavi alavi@uta.edu
Office Hours: TBD
Section Information:
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AE 5379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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MAE 4379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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ME 5379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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EE 4379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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CSE 4379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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CSE 5384-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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EE 4379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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EE 6322-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
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IE 5379-001 LEC |
UNMANNED VEHICLE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT |
Time and Place of Class Meetings: NH 106, Monday 3:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Description of Course Content: Introduction to the technologies needed to create an UVS (Unmanned Vehicle System). Integration of these technologies (embodied as a set of sensors, actuators, computing and mobility platform sub-systems) into a functioning UVS through team work. UVS could be designed to compete in a student competition sponsored by various technical organizations or to support a specific mission or function defined by the instructors. Prerequisite: B or better in the Introduction to Unmanned Vehicle Systems course and admission to the UVS certificate program.
Student Learning Outcomes: This course is designed to provide students with hands on exposure to the technologies and engineering methods used to develop and deploy Unmanned Vehicle Systems. This course explicitly takes a multi-disciplinary approach to presenting unmanned systems. The class will be team-taught with faculty from the Computer Science, Mechanical, Aerospace, and Industrial Engineering Departments. This course is designed to present the student with project experiences that would typically fall outside his/her main area of study challenging the student to explore the inherently multi-disciplinary nature of today’s complex engineered systems. This course is the second course of a common two course sequence that forms the foundation of an Undergraduate and Graduate UVS Certificate program offered in the Electrical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering Departments.
By the end of the course, you will have experience in the following areas:
• Hands-on experience with the integration of an UVS mobile platform.
• Test, trouble shoot, and operate an UVS mobile platform.
• The use of the Matlab/Simulink toolsets to model, simulate and control unmanned systems
• Utilize various types of sensors found within UVS and implement suitable sensor fusion methods
• Implement common methods used by UVS to perform Guidance, Navigation, & Control functions
• The programming of Micro Controllers to drive unmanned mobile platforms
• The use of machine vision systems to support planning and obstacle avoidance
Required Textbooks and Other Course Materials: There is no required Text for this course. Notes and supplemental materials will be provided by the course instructors.
Descriptions of major assignments and examinations: the students in the class will be assigned to multi-disciplinary student teams. Each student will conduct a sequence of four Class Projects during this course. The major assignments for the projects will be Class Project write ups, team presentations, and team capability demonstrations. In addition, each team will submit team evaluations and a final team report.
Attendance: At The University of Texas at Arlington, taking attendance is not required but attendance is a critical indicator in student success. Each faculty member is free to develop his or her own methods of evaluating students’ academic performance, which includes establishing course-specific policies on attendance
Attendance of the class is required. All team members are required to be present for Team Demonstration and Presentation Activities. Missing members (that do not have pre-arranged excused absences) and their teams will lose points on their Demonstration & Presentation assessments.
However, while UT Arlington does not require instructors to take attendance in their courses, the U.S. Department of Education requires that the University have a mechanism in place to mark when Federal Student Aid recipients “begin attendance in a course.” UT Arlington instructors will report when students begin attendance in a course as part of the final grading process. Specifically, when assigning a student a grade of F, faculty report the last date a student attended their class based on evidence such as a test, participation in a class project or presentation, or an engagement online via Blackboard. This date is reported to the Department of Education for federal financial aid recipients.
Other Requirements: Undergraduate Students must be accepted into the professional program within their home engineering department. Graduate students must be in good academic standing at the time of enrollment for the class. Degreed Undergraduates seeking to obtain a UVS Certificate without pursuing a Masters degree, must be accepted into one of the departmental Graduate UVS Certificate programs.
Grading: The following items will be graded and used to determine the final class grade.
Class Projects: 4 projects, 23% each - 92% Total
Project Write Ups: 5% each - 20% Total
Project Presentations: 4% each - 16% Total
Project Performance 8% each - 32% Total
Individual Effort: 6% each - 24% Total
Final Team Report 8% - 8% Total
Individual Effort:
A) Teammate Evaluation: You will fill an evaluation form for each of your teammates and submit it in confidence to the faculty after each assignment. Your evaluation will affect your teammates' grade he/she will get in the respective project. You can see a sample evaluation form for your reference on the last page of this document. The form is subject to change during the semester.
B) Individual Project Familiarity Quiz
The following scale will be used to assign class grades:
A 90% - 100%
B 80% - 89%
C 70% - 79%
D 60% - 69%
F less than 60%
Students are expected to keep track of their performance throughout the semester and seek guidance from available sources (including the instructor) if their performance drops below satisfactory levels.
Expectations for Out-of-Class Study: Beyond the time required to attend each class meeting, students enrolled in this course should expect to spend at least an additional 9 hours per week of their own time in course-related activities, including reading required materials, completing assignments, preparing for project demonstrations and presentations, etc.
Grade Grievances: Any appeal of a grade in this course must follow the procedures and deadlines for grade-related grievances as published in the current University catalog.
Drop Policy: Students may drop or swap (adding and dropping a class concurrently) classes through self-service in MyMav from the beginning of the registration period through the late registration period. After the late registration period, students must see their academic advisor to drop a class or withdraw. Undeclared students must see an advisor in the University Advising Center. Drops can continue through a point two-thirds of the way through the term or session. It is the student's responsibility to officially withdraw if they do not plan to attend after registering. Students will not be automatically dropped for non-attendance. Repayment of certain types of financial aid administered through the University may be required as the result of dropping classes or withdrawing. For more information, contact the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships (http://wweb.uta.edu/aao/fao/).
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I pledge, on my honor, to uphold UT Arlington’s tradition of academic integrity, a tradition that values hard work and honest effort in the pursuit of academic excellence.
I promise that I will submit only work that I personally create or contribute to group collaborations, and I will appropriately reference any work from other sources. I will follow the highest standards of integrity and uphold the spirit of the Honor Code.
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Student Feedback Survey: At the end of each term, students enrolled in classes categorized as “lecture,” “seminar,” or “laboratory” shall be directed to complete an online Student Feedback Survey (SFS). Instructions on how to access the SFS for this course will be sent directly to each student through MavMail approximately 10 days before the end of the term. Each student’s feedback enters the SFS database anonymously and is aggregated with that of other students enrolled in the course. UT Arlington’s effort to solicit, gather, tabulate, and publish student feedback is required by state law; students are strongly urged to participate. For more information, visit http://www.uta.edu/sfs.
Final Review Week: Please note, the Class Project Cumulative Final Report and the Team Project Final Report is due on the date of the class exam, May 6th, 2019, as specified in the class syllabus. During Final Review Week, an instructor shall not give any examinations constituting 10% or more of the final grade, except makeup tests and laboratory examinations. In addition, no instructor shall give any portion of the final examination during Final Review Week. During this week, classes are held as scheduled. In addition, instructors are not required to limit content to topics that have been previously covered; they may introduce new concepts as appropriate. The fourth Class Project Demonstrations and Presentations as well as the Team Project Presentations will be given by the student teams during the official exam period assigned to this class.
Emergency Exit Procedures: Should we experience an emergency event that requires us to vacate the building, students should exit the room and move toward the nearest exit. NH 106 has an emergency exit at the top and back of the room. This exit leads directly outside. If you elect to exit the front of Room NH 106 you should turn to the left as you enter the atrium. There will be an exit out of building immediately in front of you. When exiting the building during an emergency, one should never take an elevator but should use the stairwells. Faculty members and instructional staff will assist students in selecting the safest route for evacuation and will make arrangements to assist handicapped individuals.
Website: Canvas (uta.instructure.com)
Tentative Date Course Schedule.
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27-Jan |
Class Introduction, Discussion of Mechanical Design Challenges, Team Formation |
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3Feb |
Equipment Distribution, Team Project Discussion, Introduction to APMRover |
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5-Feb |
Census Day |
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10-Feb |
Safety RC Control Verification & APMRover Setup |
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17-Feb |
Team Demonstrations & Presentations No. 1 |
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24-Feb |
GNC Review & Simulink-Hardware SetUp for Waypoint Navigation (WN) |
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2 Mar |
Parameter Estimation (PE) of UGV & GNC Implementation in NUC for WN |
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9-Mar |
Spring Break |
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16-Mar |
GNC for WN & Obstacle Avoidance (OA) - WN Competition |
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23-Mar |
Sensor Integration, Fusion, and Analysis |
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30-Mar |
Extended Kalman Filters and Testing |
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6-Apr |
Team Demonstrations & Presentations No. 3 |
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13-Apr |
Environmental Sensing, Planning |
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20-Apr |
Path Planning Integration |
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27-Apr |
Sensing and Planning Trouble-Shooting |
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4-May |
Sensing and Planning Trouble-Shooting |
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11-May |
Final Demonstrations & Presentations (at official exam time 2:00 to 4:30 pm) |
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Unit Responsible |
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19-Feb |
Class Project Write Up No. 1 |
Teams |
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26-Feb |
Thumper/GNC Hardware Setup |
Teams |
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4-Mar |
PE Write Up and WN Write Up |
Teams |
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18-Mar |
WN & OA in Simulation and Hardware Demo Write Up |
Teams |
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1-Apr |
Fusion Filter Write Up |
Teams |
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8-Apr |
Sensor Fusion Class Project Write Up |
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22-Apr |
Goal and Obstacle Sensing Write Up |
Teams |
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6-May |
Mapping and Path Planning Write Up |
Teams |
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13-May |
Final Team Project Report |
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The instructors for this course reserve the right to adjust this schedule in any way that serves the educational needs of the students enrolled in this course.
Emergency Phone Numbers: In case of an on-campus emergency, call the UT Arlington Police Department at 817-272-3003 (non-campus phone), 2-3003 (campus phone). You may also dial 911. Non-emergency number 817-272-3381
Teammate Evaluation Form
XX{4,5}379 - UVS DEVELOPMENT
Spring 2018
Enter one of the following for items 1-5 in the table below.
SA = Strongly Agree (5)
A = Agree (4)
N = Neutral (3)
D = Disagree (2)
SD = Strongly Disagree (1)
Assignment: ______________________________________________________
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Teammate Name & Last Name |
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Overall this teammate contributed a lot |
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This teammate was knowledgeable technically |
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This teammate communicated clearly |
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This teammate was reliable in commitments |
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This teammate was a good team player |
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Write one contribution by this teammate |
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