ERAU competes with unmanned vehicles
Mike Bakula
Issue date: 6/15/09 Section: Campus News
LB 231 houses ERAU's Autonomous Systems Lab and the Robotics Association at Embry-Riddle. Each year, teams compete in a number of competitions for autonomous vehicles (that is, vehicles with no human driver) on land, sea and air. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University is currently the only university that competes in all 5 of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) student competitions.
One of these competitions, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), was last week. Embry Riddle's entry, Reagle 2.0 placed second in the design competition, 7th in the GPS navigation competition, and 7th in the autonomous challenge, placing 7th overall out of a field of 53 teams.
Next week, both the surface vehicle (autonomous boat) and unmanned aerial system (UAS) teams leave for their competitions. Later this summer, two more teams leave for autonomous submarine and indoor autonomous flight challenges.
The faculty advisor for each of the teams is Dr. Charles Reinholtz, chair of the mechanical engineering department. The team captain for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition team is Christopher Sammet (csammet@gmail.com). Each of this summers competitions are described at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International site: http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/.
One of these competitions, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), was last week. Embry Riddle's entry, Reagle 2.0 placed second in the design competition, 7th in the GPS navigation competition, and 7th in the autonomous challenge, placing 7th overall out of a field of 53 teams.
Next week, both the surface vehicle (autonomous boat) and unmanned aerial system (UAS) teams leave for their competitions. Later this summer, two more teams leave for autonomous submarine and indoor autonomous flight challenges.
The faculty advisor for each of the teams is Dr. Charles Reinholtz, chair of the mechanical engineering department. The team captain for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition team is Christopher Sammet (csammet@gmail.com). Each of this summers competitions are described at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International site: http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/.
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