The 20th annual intelligent ground vehicle competition: building a generation of robotists

Theisen, Bernard L.; Kosinski, Andrew

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“…This will require the team to be very deliberate with the documentation of every aspect of the project, in order to meet the capstone requirements of all programs. a) Project selection Department of Mechanical Engineering at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and FIT identified a well-defined nation-wide engineering design competition, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition 15,16 , as the first joint project to initiate the collaboration. The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) has been in existence since 1993 and has included competitors from schools such as: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Yale University.…”

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The Development of Cross-Institutional Senior Capstone Design Project Collaboration - A Pilot Project

Gupta

Jensen

Shih

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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For years, engineers in industry have collaborated in teams with colleagues who are separated geographically. The accelerating pace of the globalization of design makes long-distance communication and project management necessary skill sets for engineers since many companies now operate internationally. Although the concept of a virtual design team is not new, it has not been widely adopted in engineering curriculum due to many challenges including: inadequate resource allocation, lack of instructors with virtual design experience, mismatched project course structures between schools, and the difficulty to sustain support to overcome coordination obstacles. In this paper, we will outline preliminary efforts in developing such a crossinstitutional collaborative program between two engineering programs i.e., Mechanical Engineering department at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Tallahassee, Florida and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department at the Florida Institute of Engineering, Melbourne, Florida. Both programs have strong capstone design curriculum aiming to introduce the students to the real-world engineering design process through the participation in externally funded, hands-on design projects. Students are introduced to the industrial design process by forming cohesive teams where they interact among themselves, with industry sponsors, faculty advisors, and, sometimes, with multidisciplinary members outside engineering schools.Over the years, Department of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering has increased its multidisciplinary projects such that its students are required to collaborate with various engineering and non-engineering programs and, for the past few years, it has expanded the collaboration to a few international universities. The department's past experience with the multidisciplinary approach shows that such projects can leverage on the complementary skills and disciplinary expertise of individuals and institutions so that effective partnership can form to provide inspirational learning experience for all participants.Florida Institute of Technology program has a similar senior design model, spanning a total of three semesters, a single credit junior design course held in the spring semester, followed by both senior year semesters. Being a smaller school with 14 different engineering disciplines, multidisciplinary senior design projects are commonplace, allowing students from various disciplines to work collaboratively to meet the end requirement(s). Oftentimes, senior design projects are industry-sponsored, although national design competitions are sometimes used as well.Based on multiple deliberations between design coordinators and program leaders, the programs decided to establish a long-term partnership to develop multi-year cross-institutional senior capstone design projects. Similar to multidisciplinary projects, we expect structured coordination and effective communication will be needed to manage a cross-institutional team. Additionally, the pr...

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confidence: 99%

The Development of Cross-Institutional Senior Capstone Design Project Collaboration - A Pilot Project

Gupta

Jensen

Shih

2016 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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The 21st annual intelligent ground vehicle competition: robotists for the future

Theisen

2014

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The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) is one of four, unmanned systems, student competitions that were founded by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The IGVC is a multidisciplinary exercise in product realization that challenges college engineering student teams to integrate advanced control theory, machine vision, vehicular electronics and mobile platform fundamentals to design and build an unmanned system. Teams from around the world focus on developing a suite of dual-use technologies to equip ground vehicles of the future with intelligent driving capabilities. Over the past 21 years, the competition has challenged undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students with real world applications in intelligent transportation systems, the military and manufacturing automation. To date, teams from over 80 universities and colleges have participated. This paper describes some of the applications of the technologies required by this competition and discusses the educational benefits. The primary goal of the IGVC is to advance engineering education in intelligent vehicles and related technologies. The employment and professional networking opportunities created for students and industrial sponsors through a series of technical events over the fourday competition are highlighted. Finally, an assessment of the competition based on participation is presented.

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The 20th annual intelligent ground vehicle competition: building a generation of robotists

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The Development of Cross-Institutional Senior Capstone Design Project Collaboration - A Pilot Project

The Development of Cross-Institutional Senior Capstone Design Project Collaboration - A Pilot Project

The 21st annual intelligent ground vehicle competition: robotists for the future

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