The first buggy that Atlas retrofit for autonomous purposes, RoboQuasar was born out of the skeleton of an old Carnegie Involvement Association buggy. She rolled on Racedays 2016 and 2017. She was retired by Raceday 2018 after BabyBuggy was built.
BabyBuggy, our autonomous testbed-turned-buggy, rolled manually on Raceday 2018. She is a retrofit baby stroller equipped with LIDAR, encoders, camera, GPS and an IMU. BabyBuggy has our most advanced localization and control algorithms onboard, allowing the stroller to determine its state on the course and navigate to waypoints chosen around the course.
Our newest addition to the fleet of autonomous buggies, DuneBuggy is a retrofit child-sized electric dune buggy. We are planning to add updated hardware from BabyBuggy including LIDAR, encoders, camera, GPS and an IMU. We are hoping that this new model will eventually be our most robust system.