IT 311: Sensors Used in Connected and Automated Vehicles

Course Description:
The Sensors Used in Connected and Automated Vehicles course was developed by Jackson State University and the Center for Advanced Automotive Technology (CAAT). This course introduces students to principles of sensors (GPS, MEMS, LIDAR, Radar, Ultrasonic, Infrared) used in connected and automated vehicles, locomotion, kinematic models and constraints, maneuverability, and workspaces of autonomous mobile robots and vehicles.

Objectives of the course include: 1. Explain the concept, history, and the importance of automated (autonomous) and connected vehicles. 2. Describe the automation levels, the associated technical, social and ethical issues of automated and connected vehicles. 3. Appraise locomotion methods of autonomous mobile robots. 4. Report on appropriate wheeled mobile robots and vehicles. 5. Build kinematic models and constraints and apply principles of mobile robot maneuverability. 6. Report on mobility design workspace. 7. Demonstrate the understanding of the material covered by the learning outcomes in Lessons 16. 8. Discuss the variety of sensors used in mobile robots and the strategies for extracting information from the sensors. 9. Assess the pros and cons of different sensors and use them for different real world applications in mobile and vehicles. 10. Describe the performance characteristics of a sensor. 11. Discuss the strategies for using uncertain sensor input to guide the robots behavior. 12. Apply Android Software Operation and sensors technology to create a software tool kit.

Course Contents:
Included materials in the Sensors Used in Connected and Automated Vehicles course are a syllabus, lectures and handouts, laboratory activities, and quizzes. 

The 49-page syllabus and lesson plan document includes links to required texts and supplemental readings and resources, a course description, course objectives, course content and assignment schedule, weekly lesson plans, and other course related information.

The 9-page Laboratory Activities document provides a lab and course description and links to .pdf lab activities, supplementary lab projects, and videos.

The 3-page Lectures and handouts document provides links to 14 lectures, 12 handouts, and references.

The 6-page question bank provides quiz questions for each week of the course. Information is provided for obtaining answers to the quizzes. 

Below is a list of the files contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each file is included in parenthesis. 

IT 311: Sensors Used in Connected and Automated Vehicles (10 files, 1.1 MB)

• Laboratory Activities
  • Laboratory Activities (IT 311 Laboratory Activities.docx 820 KB)
• Lectures and Handouts
  • Lectures and handouts (IT 311 Lectures and handouts.docx 42 KB)
• Quizzes
  • Questions Bank (IT 311 Questions Bank.docx 90 KB)
  • Answer to Quizzes Information (READ ME.docx 14 KB)
• Syllabus and Lesson Plans
  • Syllabus and Lesson plans. (IT 311 Syllabus and Lesson plans.docx 127 KB)