{"68696":{"#nid":"68696","#data":{"type":"news","title":"RoboJackets\u2019 IGVC Team Wins 3rd Place at Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Intelligent Ground Vehicle\nCompetition (IGVC) team of Georgia Tech\u2019s RoboJackets won 3rd place at the IGVC,\nheld at Oakland University in Michigan June 3-6. This marks the 5th year the\nRobojackets have finished within the top 10 at the competition. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe RoboJackets competed\nagainst 30 other teams from the United States, Canada, Jordan and India. The\ngoal of the yearly competition is to design, manufacture and program an\nunmanned ground vehicle to navigate through an outdoor obstacle course. Consisting\nof a grass terrain, the course requires vehicles to avoid obstacles, such as\ncones, trashcans and flags, while remaining in the set path.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThis year, the team entered \u201cRoxi,\u201d\nan unmanned ground vehicle that is completely autonomous and drives the course\nbased on the pre-program algorithms on the sun-shielded i7 laptop. The team\naimed to improve both the mechanical and electrical weaknesses of previous\ndesigns while decreasing the weight of the vehicle from its predecessor,\u201cJeani.\u201d\nThe vehicle\u2019s improvements and efficiency helped Tech jump from 6th place the\nlast year to 3rd place at this year\u2019s competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe RoboJackets IGVC team\nconsists of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, aerospace\nengineering and computer science majors and has competed in this competition\nfor six years.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWritten by Georgia Tech Communications \u0026amp; Marketing Student Media Member Katie McGuire\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) team of Georgia Tech\u2019s RoboJackets won 3rd place at the IGVC, held at Oakland University in Michigan June 3-6. This marks the 5th year the Robojackets have finished within the top 10 at the competition\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) team of Georgia Tech\u2019s RoboJackets won 3rd place at the IGVC in June."}],"uid":"27462","created_gmt":"2011-07-05 16:29:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:09:40","author":"Liz Klipp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-07-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"68697":{"id":"68697","type":"image","title":"RoboJackets\u0027 IGVC team","body":null,"created":"1449177185","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:13:05","changed":"1475894597","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:17","alt":"RoboJackets\u0027 IGVC team","file":{"fid":"192637","name":"robojackets_igvc_june_2011.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robojackets_igvc_june_2011_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/robojackets_igvc_june_2011_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":76009,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/robojackets_igvc_june_2011_0.jpg?itok=0bm980Kl"}}},"media_ids":["68697"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dr4qZjfpvR8","title":"Watch \u201cRoxi\u201d Navigate the Course"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/gallery\/main.php?g2_itemId=7158","title":"Images of the competition"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.robojackets.org\/","title":"RoboJackets\u2019 Website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.igvc.org\/","title":"Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition Website"}],"groups":[{"id":"1183","name":"Home"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"13588","name":"College of Engineering; School of Mechanical engineering; Robojackets; Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["klipp@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}