Autonomous Vehicle
Arduino line-tracking car — 1st place in the EECS capstone midterm race
Cornerstone EECS Design and Implementation
This was the engineering capstone course for EECS (2020). The midterm challenge: build a line-tracking car from scratch in four weeks. The TAs provided the car frame; everything else — laser-cut structural parts, hand-soldered circuits, and Arduino-based control — was on us.
After weeks of motor fine-tuning, weight reduction, and algorithm optimization, our car achieved both the fastest lap time and the highest overall score, earning 1st place in the midterm competition.
Final Project: Fire Extinguisher Car
For the final presentation, we extended the car into a practical application: a high-temperature sensing semi-automatic fire alarm and extinguisher.
The idea came from news reports on old wooden buildings in Taipei that posed serious fire hazards. Our solution was a fleet of small cars equipped with heat and fire detection sensors. On detecting a fire, the cars alert nearby residents and provide a preliminary extinguishing response.
