Who We Are
The University of Michigan's Autonomous Robotic Vehicle Team team is a student-run competition team located within the Robotics Department at the College of Engineering. Each year, we design and manufacture a new autonomous vehicle from scratch to compete at the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Our members in each sub-team work in the Student Design Space at the Ford Motor Company Robotics Building to assemble the new vehicle.
The Competition
The Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition offers a design experience that is the very cutting edge of engineering education. It is multidisciplinary, theory-based, hands-on, team implemented, outcome assessed, and based on product realization. It encompasses the very latest technologies impacting industrial development and taps subjects of high interest to students.
We are currently improving system integration for road testing while continuing our commitment to innovation, which led to our 3rd place design finish the past two years. Our team is working towards the Self-Drive component of this year’s competition, which introduces dynamic environments, lane-changing, and deep learning. We are seeking funding for competition-related expenses.
Your Support
Your donations will be used for new equipment to drive our team's technological innovations, including hardware for computationally expensive machine learning algorithms and a comprehensive perception sensor suite for complex road environments. Funding for this project will also go towards competition-related expenses for our team including travel, transportation of our vehicle and equipment, and team accommodations. The industry-level work we do allows our members to secure internships at influential companies in technology and automotive, putting them at different locations across the country during our competition in June. We believe in giving our leads and committed members the opportunity to attend IGVC, work on the systems that they own to support the success of the team as a representative of the university, and get the practical experience of applying their work in a competition environment.
