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Robotics’ Vehicle Drives Itself to Success
6.9.2011
Written by Daniel Bosse '11
A team of senior engineering students represented York College this past weekend in an international robotics competition at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.. The students took part in the 19th annual Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) as a part of their senior design capstone project. The senior design capstone project challenges engineers in their final semesters of the program to take a real-world problem and design and test a solution.
The competition involves a series of challenges that test the vehicles’ ability to navigate, communicate, and avoid obstacles without any human interaction. The IGVC is strongly supported by companies that develop unmanned vehicles for military, law enforcement, and space exploration programs. Some o...




