{"id":61096,"date":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-engineering-students-place-second-in-national-intelligent-car-competition\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-engineering-students-place-second-in-national-intelligent-car-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/uri-engineering-students-place-second-in-national-intelligent-car-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 engineering students place second in national intelligent car competition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 9, 2013 \u2013 A team of three 溏心vlog免费B站 computer engineering students took second place in a national competition to build an intelligent model car that can rapidly follow a circuitous route without any humans controlling it.<\/p>\n


\n\t溏心vlog免费B站 seniors Jillian Burgess of North Kingstown, Steve Norris of North Attleboro and Ben Ricci of Portsmouth entered the Freescale Cup as a term project while enrolled in a computer organization course, an alternative to typical laboratory experiments and exams. Provided with a model car kit, standard components, and a Freescale computer to drive it, the students engineered the vehicle and wrote computer programs and algorithms to enable the car to autonomously follow a black line on a track to the finish line.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe students\u2019 vehicle finished first on April 27 in a timed race against teams from 16 other universities in the eastern United States, but they lost in a head-to-head competition against the winner of the western regional, the University of California at Berkeley. The Berkeley team will travel to China to compete in the world championship later this year.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe arrived, pushed go and it ran the whole course without a problem,\u201d said Ricci, who aims for a career in robotics or embedded software after graduation this month. \u201cI expected we would do well, but winning wasn\u2019t even on my radar.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe had a really good feeling we were going to do well when we got there, but in the process of getting to that point we were a bit iffy about it,\u201d added Burgess.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe vehicles use a camera and sensors to \u201csee\u201d the black line on the track, then process that data to make decisions about proper steering and speed. Once the students push a button to start the vehicle, they provide no additional input.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMost of it was a programming exercise, but our steering control algorithm was also really well written,\u201d said Norris, who is returning to 溏心vlog免费B站 for graduate school next fall. \u201cWe detected and reacted to turns better than the other teams. The other teams would constantly over-steer.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tOf the 20 teams in the eastern regional competition, just five completed the course successfully. A second 溏心vlog免费B站 team failed to finish.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe 溏心vlog免费B站 students, who were advised by Professor Qing Yang, said that they put in a lot more work on the competition than if they had simply conducted the traditional lab experiments with the class instead, but it was worth the extra effort.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe worked really well together as a team and integrated what we learned in all our other classes into this one project with great success,\u201d said Ricci. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI really liked it because it was applicable to the outside world,\u201d Burgess said. \u201cI liked how we applied what we learned to a real-world problem. Putting it all together gives us a great perspective on how we can use what we\u2019ve learned in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\n溏心vlog免费B站 students (l-r) Jillian Burgess, Ben Ricci and Steve Norris pose with their trophies and car after winning the East regional competition of the Freescale Cup, a competition to build an intelligent model car. (Photo courtesy of Steve Norris.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 9, 2013 \u2013 A team of three 溏心vlog免费B站 computer engineering students took second place in a national competition to build an intelligent model car that can rapidly follow a circuitous route without any humans controlling it. 溏心vlog免费B站 seniors Jillian Burgess of North Kingstown, Steve Norris of North […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}