End Goal

The primary goal of our project is to autonomously parallel park a Turtlebot. To fulfill this goal, the Turtlebot must detect open spaces for parking and determine whether they are valid spots. Once it finds a valid spot to park in, the Turtlebot should parallel park itself in that spot.

Motivation

Looking for parking and parallel parking are two tedious tasks drivers have to deal with. It takes time to find the right parking and to perfectly park, but with our project, that's a thing of the past.

Two problems that we needed to solve were:

• How to determine if a spot was a valid parking spot

• How to implement the parallel parking algorithm

Applications

We aim for this project to be used in busy cities like San Francisco and New York. These cities usually have limited parking that can not only take a long time to find, but is also difficult to park into due to how tight the space is. Our project has the potential to erase this tedious task from everyday life.