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NC A&T Aggie
Autonomous Auto Team Places first in
the country and second overall in
the 2019 SAE Autodrive
Challenge
Tonya Dixon |
Photo courtesy of Autodrive
Challenge/NCA&T
“The A3 car innovations were all hand built.
The coding and fingerprints were all done by students of
N.C. A&T.” said Kareem Hogan, electrical engineering Ph.D.
candidate and A3 team co-captain
EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (June 17, 2019) – The North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University Aggie Autonomous
Autoteam (A3) finished second overall and first in the
country in this year's SAE Autodrive
Challenge national competition. |
Now in the second year of the three-year
competition, the College of Engineering's A3 team competed
against seven North American teams including Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Michigan State University, Michigan
Technical University, Texas A&M University, University of
Waterloo and Ketterling University, each transforming a
Chevy Volt into a functional
autonomous vehicle.
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| In this year's competition, the car's ability to
navigate urban environment driving scenarios in the presence
of static and dynamic objects was tested and scored at "Mcity",
a one-of-a-kind urban test facility located in Ann Arbor,
Michigan.
“Our A3 team consists of graduate students and undergrads
solving the practical problems identified in their
subgroups. Those problems range from
affordability, to performance in
inclement weather to comfort," said
Dr. Ali Karimoddini,
electrical and computer
engineering associate professor.
Initiatives like the Autodrive
Challenge test the limits of
research and innovation for an
autonomous future. |
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"This is an impressive show of what students can do (when) given the
opportunity. You’re talking about students coming together with very
limited resources and budgets. Some of our team members are brand
new and quickly ramped up to get to a competition, taking a regular
car, outfitting it with sensors and building their own algorithms
and software from scratch,” said Kareem Hogan, electrical
engineering Ph.D. candidate and A3 team co-captain. “The A3 car
innovations were all hand built. Not outsourced. The coding and
fingerprints were all done by students of N.C. A&T.” |
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