Purdue University and West Point have participated in many interesting and important events and competitions that involve autonomous vehicles. None, however, involved autonomous racing cars competing head-to-head at speeds approaching 200 miles per hour in the 'Racing Capital of the World.' The level of challenge and excitement with this is unsurpassed! In addition, our partnership helps bring together the worlds of a top-notch civilian engineering university, Purdue University, and the United States' preeminent leader development institution, the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Offering

Our team has a fair amount of experience with autonomous vehicles and their subsystems, including with Reinforcement Learning (RL), robot trust and teaming, swarms, human-machine interface, vehicle and path planning behaviors for small and medium-sized ground vehicles, and object classification, as well as the intersection of ethics and emerging technologies. The Purdue University Autonomous Vehicles Society represents the competitive side of Purdue University’s well-recognized programs and research in engineering and autonomous vehicles. Its members have competed in the evGrandPrix Autonomous Challenge since its beginning, creating valuable experience in autonomous vehicle development and racing. The Robotics Research Center at West Point is the Academy's premier resource for expertise and academic scholarship in the field of robotics. The center supports research activities focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous systems to educate and inspire leaders of character who are prepared to think critically, innovate, and apply robotic systems in the Army. The center has participated in the DARPA Swarm Challenge, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, and in multiple other initiatives in industry, government, and academia.

Needs

We seek experience and expertise, foremost. Though we have a dedicated, talented, and experienced group of mostly undergraduate participants with faculty support, we seek graduate students, faculty, post-graduate researchers, and partners in industry that want to be a part of our joint team.

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