Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition

The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition ("IGVC") is one of three student competitions for unmanned vehicle systems, that were founded by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) in the 1990s. The primary goal of the competition is to advance engineering education in intelligent vehicles and related technologies.

Aim

The competition is a multidisciplinary exercise requiring teams of college engineering students to integrate advanced control theory, machine vision, vehicular electronics, and mobile platform fundamentals to design and build an unmanned vehicle. 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.

Each competition includes a series of technical events over the four-day competition period, offering employment and professional networking opportunities for students and industrial sponsors.

History

Over the 14 years up to 2007, the competition has provided undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students with real world applications in intelligent transportation systems, military transport systems and manufacturing automation. To date, teams from over 50 universities and colleges have participated.

ee also

*Chicago Engineering Design Team
*Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center
*Inducement prize contest

External links

Official Sites

* [http://www.igvc.org The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition home page]

Team Sites

* [http://www.chicagoedt.org/ Chicago Engineering Design Team - University of Illinois at Chicago]
* [http://www.tcnj.edu/~njav/ NJAV (New Jersey Autonomous Vehicle) - The College of New Jersey]
* [http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/%7Earvp/ Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Project - University of Alberta]
* [http://capra.etsmtl.ca/ CAPRA - École de Technologie Supérieure]
* [http://www.robotics.uc.edu/ Center for Robotics Research - University of Cincinnati]
* [http://ltu164.ltu.edu/igvc/ Lawrence Tech Team]
* [http://mdrc.rit.edu/ MDRC - Rochester Institute of Technology]
* [http://caribou.cc.trincoll.edu/orgs_robotteam/ Robot Study Team - Trinity College]
* [http://www.robojackets.org/ RoboJackets - Georgia Tech]
* [http://robotics.ucf.edu University of Central Florida Team]
* [http://www.ikko.k.hosei.ac.jp/rinko/ University of Hosei Team]
* [http://www.me.umn.edu/igvc/ University of Minnesota Team]
* [http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/AVT/ Virginia Tech - Autonomous Vehicle Team]
* [http://www.etown.edu/wunderbot Wunderbot - Elizabethtown College]

Sponsor Sites

* [http://www.ara.com/ Applied Research Laboratories]
* [http://www.auvsi.org/ AUVSI]
* [http://www.csi-wireless.com/ CSI Wireless]
* [http://www.dod.mil/ Department of Defense]
* [http://www.jauswg.org/ Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems]
* [http://www.jointrobotics.com/ Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise]
* [http://www.oakland.edu/ Oakland University]
* [http://www.sae.org/ Society of Automotive Engineers]
* [http://www.thetatau.org/ Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity]
* [http://www.usma.edu/ United States Military Academy at West Point]
* [http://tardec.army.mil/ U.S. Army TARDEC]


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