Machines | Villanova College of Engineering to Compete in RobotX Challenge

RobotX is an international robotic vehicle competition organized by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR). University teams are competitively selected from six Pacific Rim countries (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and the United States) to participate in this prestigious competition. For the RobotX Challenge, each team is provided with a 16-ft Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel (WAM-V), which they must outfit with a range of sensors, software and hardware to facilitate on-board decision-making and mission implementation. Tasks like obstacle avoidance, navigation and object identification must be completed without human guidance, intervention or remote control. In December 2016, Villanova University along with Florida Atlantic University (Team WORX) will head to Oahu, Hawaii to face-off against 17 other university teams in the 2016 RobotX Challenge. Team WORX was one of only seven US-based teams to be selected to compete in this exciting international competition. !!!