GVSU engineering students win national honors
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Students from Grand Valley State
University's Padnos College of Engineering and Computing took both
first and second place in a national robotics contest in Ohio.
The two teams competed in the National Robotics Competition in
Marion, Ohio from April 14-16. A team comprised of students Brian
Collins of Warrenville, Ill., Nathan Seitz of Standale and Ryan
Schwark of Lenox took top honors. The team of Shawn Wright of Sparta,
Alexander Gabier of Jenison and Tyler Dekiep of Spring Lake took
second place.
They took part in the Mini-Sumo Robot Competition. The
individual matches consisted of two autonomous robots placed into a
circular ring with the goal of pushing the other robot out of the
ring. The robots were required to sense the opponent's robot and the
edge of the ring. The students designed and built the chassis, wrote
a program to control the robot's motors and to receive data from the
on-board sensors. The data was used to locate the opponent and
determine the best attack.
GVSU engineering students win national honors
Apr 22, 2010
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