Incredibly impressive.
Eight engineering students at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) have pulled off a historic achievement after they created a self-driving robotic car.
After just 12 weeks of working on the project, students from the one-year BEng in Electronic Engineering and the two-year Higher Certificate in Engineering in Electronic Engineering, have successfully performed a safe test drive on the institute’s Cork Road campus.
“Achieving the ‘White Board to Self Drive Car’ project in 12 weeks, eight WIT Electronic Engineering students have proven that anything is possible, if you keep moving forward. They have just completed a project never before attempted within WIT, in 12 weeks and it worked. One of the coolest sounds we have ever heard on a project was listening to the car increasing revs as its gets ready to go,” said lecturer Jason Berry, the Lead Engineer in WIT’s Applied Robotics Lab (ARL) lectures.
Congratulations to all of the following students on their impressive feat:
The Vision team made up of James Doughty (New Ross, Co Wexford) and Shane Shortiss (Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary)
The Acceleration Systems team, Adrian Skowron (New Ross, Co Wexford) and Mark Ormsby (Castledermot, Co Kildare)
The Steering Control Systems Team, Michael Wall (Ballinamult, Co Waterford) and Jenny Ball (Tramore, Co Waterford)
The braking team are Mark MacManus (Waterford) and Mark Dungan (Mullinavat, Co Kilkenny)
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