Brought in an RC vehicle because the snap rover did not have a high enough rate of speed to log on the GPS. The RC car was able to log a significant amount of data with a surprisingly few outliers. The data actually was able to track the vehicle down one side of the sidewalk and back up the other side. We were also able to park in a parking spot and back out. We collected the data then imported it into Google earth, which showed our path very precisely, with only a few small outliers. We also drove the rc car back into the building, up the and around the vending area outside the Ee department. You can see in the images our path and even our detour to the vending area, there are some greater deviations from the actual track once in the building, but still a fairly good representation of our track.
We had a morning meeting where we discussed the requirements for the research paper and presentations. Midterm presentations will need to contain most of our literature reveiw, methods and any results we have obtained. IEEE.org actually has a paper format for teams interested in possibly publishing thier work after RET is completed.
In the afternoon I found a calculation for converting car mileage into emissions quatnities. I was able to obtain this data from the Sightline Institute.org. The following table shows the values based on car size.
| vehicle | conversion factor | lbs CO2 per mile traveled |
| small | 0.59 | |
| medium | 1.1 | |
| SUV | 1.57 |
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