Founded in 2015, Atlas is a group of undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University focused on creating a vehicle capable of navigating itself around Carnegie Mellon's iconic buggy course. Since the project's founding in the dormitory of an excited freshman, then as a part of the Carnegie Involvement Association, the Atlas Project has grown into a full-fledged university-funded student organization. We have been at the forefront of the robotic buggy competition, pushing for its incorporation into the annual Sweepstakes competition held during Carnival.

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, and an IMU. We plan on rolling BabyBuggy this raceday alongside the DuneBuggy.

Our newest addition to the fleet of autonomous buggies, the DuneBuggy is a retrofit child-sized electric dune buggy. Complete with encoders, cameras, and a GPS, we are hoping that the DuneBuggy will lead Atlas to complete a fully autonomous roll without crashing on Raceday 2019.

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