Autonomous planning of unwanned vehicle

In this report, the author aims to describe the programming for the autonomous vehicle he was tasked to do for his final year project and share his finding on autonomous drive. He will start by relating the background information and articles he came across while searching for resources regarding unmanned vehicle. The background information regarding autonomous and unmanned vehicle are divided into three portions of military, commercial and academic competition. Following next, he will do a literature review on the possible method of programming autonomous vehicle and navigation and explain in detail the A* path planning which he consider to be particularly useful for future undergrad who are going to carry on working with this vehicle. Vision will also be included in the section since autonomous vehicle and vision are inseparable entities in the robotics world. Then the author will explain the program structure of the autonomous mode for the unmanned vehicle. He will highlight the constraint face while programming for the vehicle and explain the steps he take to overcome the constraint so that the autonomous mode will achieve its objectives. He will also describe the decision making in a flow chart format for the autonomous drive. The author will conclude this report with possible improvement to the project.Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering