SCSU won Robot Competition
from left: Mark C. Petzold, Joseph Idziorek, Josh Boesche,
Gabe Borscheid, Justin Ficker, Mark Sahr, Warren Yu
This past Friday (May 4th, 2007), a group of engineering students (Joseph Idziorek, Justin Ficker, Josh Boesche, Gabe Borscheid, Mark Sahr and advisors: Mark C. Petzold (ECE) and Warren Yu (MME)) participated in the General Dynamics Unattended Ground Vehicle competition at Hyland Lake Park in Bloomington.
The St. Cloud State team competed against two teams from Minnesota State University, Mankato. The goal of the competition was to demonstrate robots controlled and navigated through a wireless link, using only telemetry from the robot, including video, a global positioning system (GPS), and an electronic compass. The robots job was to deploy and recover sensor pods at predefined locations.
