Cars of the future will be able to do more than just parallel-park by themselves but will never completely take control away from the motorists who drive them, according to a student developing a robotic smart car that can navigate roads all on its own. To read more, please click here
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Robot racers return to winners circle
The key to winning a race is not to stand still, say UWindsor engineering students whose robot took top honours in the Autonomous Racing Challenge, July 11 at the University of Waterloo. It was the second straight year that Team Invincible beat out national competition to win the challenge, which puts vehicles through their paces without human guidance or control.
Two-time champions: UWindsor's Team Invincible—from left, Sid Ahuja, Michael Stolarchuk, and Thanh Nguyen—successfully defended their title at the Autonomous Racing Challenge with their robot, nicknamed i2.
The Windsor entry won all three stages of the contest—a drag race, a circuit course, and static judging.
“Many of the other entries this year were based on our winning design from last year,” said team leader Sid Ahuja, a doctoral student in electrical and computer engineering. “Fortunately, we had made improvements that allowed us to keep ahead of the competition.”
Ahuja said this year’s race was especially challenging because it incorporated stop signs, traffic lights, and moving obstacles on a track shaped in a figure eight. His Invincible teammates—fellow doctoral student Thanh Nguyen and Michael Stolarchuk, who just graduated from Belle River High School—were up to the challenge.
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Engineering students roll to victory in robot race
Team Invincible proved as good as its name. A robot designed and built by UWindsor engineering students took top honours at the national Autonomous Racing Challenge in Waterloo, April 26.
Standing (left to right): Daniel McDonald of team iSysDT, capstone design team member Saket Sood, Gagandeep Singh Dulay of team iSysDT, sponsor Dean Clevett of BASF, capstone design team member Mohammad Bidabadi, academic advisor Jonathan Wu, departmental technologist Don Tersigni. Kneeling: Team Invincible members Thanh Nguyen, Siddhant Ahuja and Michael Stolarchuk. Missing from photo: Team iSysDT members Ramsin Audysho, Hyung-Kyu Choi, and Rifat Chowdhury; capstone design team member Rameez Syed.
UWindsor entrants Invincible (foreground) and iSysDT competed in a robot race April 26 in Waterloo. Invincible set a course record en route to victory.
