The pro so far...

Let me tell you the current status of the project.

Software:
We have decided on OpenCV - the computer vision libraries provided by Intel.

Search for Neural network packages continues even though we have got a few good ones.

Sreedal has created an algorithm to find the roadway,in matlab. Some curve fitting features has to be added to it and it must be converted to pure c++ in order to incorporate it into our main software.

I'm working on OpenCV now. The interface with the camera is working fine now, thanks to the powerful library, the example code and documentation. We are able to grab frames from the camera and the image processing has to be done on it. Once its done experiments on the machine learning part has to start. I'm still confused about the neural networks implementation. The parameters which are going to be the input and the output of the neural nets are a bit complex.

Hardware:

We got a camera - a Sony handycam from the image processing lab.

Eohan and Sri Raj are working on the AVR programming part. Eohan has crearted a PCB for the AVR Programmer. Our interfaces are yet be specified completely.
They shall interface the software with the vehicle.

Mech guys ( Abhilash, Prithvi etc ) are working on the vehicle. They have two options now - either to modify an existing vehicle or create a new one - a single seater with simpler driving mechanisms.

We tried to use the Blackfin EZLite 561 but it wasn't a complete success. Even the demo codes are not working properly. Too much time was wasted in it during the beginning of the semester. We hope to check that later but the current plan is to go on with the PC.