1 / 9

What is AIRC?

What is AIRC?. Auburn University IEEE Robotics Committee is an umbrella organization for a variety of robotics projects. Formed in response to student requests: Projects/competitions Undergraduate research Many of our students want to strengthen their expertise!

woods
Download Presentation

What is AIRC?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What is AIRC? • Auburn University IEEE Robotics Committee is an umbrella organization for a variety of robotics projects. • Formed in response to student requests: • Projects/competitions • Undergraduate research • Many of our students want to strengthen their expertise! • Participation not limited to undergraduates.

  2. Organization

  3. Student Goals • Student organizations • HKN: top academic students in dept. • IEEE: active (motivated) students in the dept • Combine: get enthusiastic, capable participants • Robotics competitions and projects: • Long term teamwork • Undergraduate research • Get experience not available in “normal” coursework.

  4. Faculty Goals • Increase research funding • Integrate and strengthen existing research programs at AU: MEMS, autonomous vehicles, signal processing, embedded processors, control, navigation, image processing and vision, sensor fusion, cooperative robotics, etc. • Develop research labor force • Identify potential graduate students • Undergraduate research opportunities

  5. Funding plan: • Need funds for equipment (development workstations, processor cards, sensors, power, batteries, etc.) and competition travel. • Elizabeth Hammonds: AIRC fundraising/PR officer. • Will establish AU gift account for contributions. • Undergraduates: “will work for academic credit.” • Graduate level competition: requires significantly larger funding base (GRA).

  6. Infrastructure plan • Current location plan: • senior design lab • Cooperative Robotics lab (Roppel) • Important to have “gathering point” for team cohesion.

  7. “Danger ahead:” • “It will kill your research program.” Peter Jones, AU-ME mini-Baja/Formula SAE advisor • ME competitions expensive, high admin overhead • SoutheastCon: slightly more than a senior design. • Emphasis of AIRC: • Visibility, success, and funding of AU ECE research • develop ugrad skill base, enthusiasm, available ugrad research labor, recruit to graduate program.

  8. Schedule • [Spring/summer 2006] • “tinker” and evaluate available technologies. • Start fundraising. • [Fall 2006] • Start formal team meetings and work.

More Related