Prayagraj: The country’s first unmanned car has achieved another milestone in its latest testing. It was successfully tested at the Moti Lal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) campus in Prayagraj. This car covered a distance of more than two hundred meters without any problem at a speed of 30 km per hour on the campus roads. During this time, when it found an obstacle, not only did this unmanned car stop automatically, that is, its brakes were applied, but it also kept changing its path when necessary and turned itself at the turning points and reached the designated place. This car has been made by the B.Tech students of MNNIT. Till now it has completely met the standards in various stages. However, this project will have to wait for some more time to reach the final stage. It is believed that in the next six months this unmanned car will be seen running on the roads. Technocrats of MNNIT are very excited about the successful testing of the second phase of the unmanned five-seater car and they are hopeful that their project will be completely successful.
This is how an unmanned car works
The first unmanned car that runs without a driver has been prepared by the students of MNNIT, Prayagraj after many years of tireless hard work. After successful coding and programming, this car has been launched to run on any road. Cameras have been installed in the front and rear of this car. Due to this, this car moves automatically by watching the road without any human driver. The car can see any vehicle coming from the front, a person, a crowd, an animal, a pothole or a ravine, and in case of any kind of obstruction, it automatically stops by applying brakes. Not only this, as soon as the barrier is removed, this unmanned car also leaves for its destination. It can detect all the causes of road accidents.
Help received from American University
About a year ago, this car could travel only 30 meters in the MNNIT campus of Prayagraj. Steering was based on chain system. After coding and programming, now its other obstacles have been overcome with the help of Bhuvan Jam, a research student in the Department of Computer Vision, Carnegie Mellon University of America.
Team of 19 youth working on the project
According to the students associated with the project, a team of 19 youth worked on mechanical design, electrical, computer coding and vision. Now success has been achieved in making the steering chain free. The mechanical head of this team is Ayush Gaur. Shashank Singh is in charge of electrical and Anadi Garg is the head of computer vision. After sprinting for two hundred meters in the MNNIT campus, this unmanned car was found completely fit to run on the roads.
The third and final phase will begin
According to Anadi Garg, now the third and last phase of this car will start, which will last for six months. Professor Sameer and Prof. of MNNIT. A team of B.Tech students have prepared this car together under the direction of Jitendra Gangwar. Funding and guidance for this car has been given by Rohit Garg, Vice President of RRD Go Creative, a 1995 batch student of MNNIT, and Rajesh Kumar, posted as Superintending Engineer in the Ministry of Road and Transport, New Delhi. This unmanned car project named Kart-95 has cost Rs 15 lakh.
According to Anadi Garg, with the help of Carnegie Mellon University of America, success has been achieved in removing the obstacles of steering and vision of the driverless car. Now wherever this car is asked to go through coding, it will automatically find its way and reach there.