Olin Drift
The goal of Olin DRIFT is to create a driftable go-kart with steer and throttle by wire systems so that the car can either drift itself or take rough inputs and convert them into the complex outputs needed to hold a car in a slide. See the illustrations below for visual explanations of the latter principle.
This video shows a professional drifter maintaining a constant turn radius. As can be seen, maintaining a continuous radius requires frequent steering and pedal inputs with precise timing. One possible goal of this project would be to enable the driver to input a single movement, and an onboard control loop would take that input and generate all the precise outputs needed to maintain a drift.
The club is just starting, but already consists of 14 members who will need to build a go-kart with a robust chassis, on which a complex sensor array, electric brakes, electric steering, and electric throttle will need to be mounted. The kart will then need to process the driver's inputs and the kart's telemetry and quickly generate outputs that keep the car within an extremely small tolerance of stability.