Automotive engineering graduate students participate in Bosch-funded autonomous boat project
January 11, 2018
Through a Bosch Community Fund great, Clemson’s graduate students and faculty in Automotive Engineering were given the opportunity to study the challenges In developing small scale autonomous boats with an eye toward removing micro-plastics from the ocean.
The 71 students divided into groups and created 18 different boats that were capable of cruise control, boundary tracking, and collision avoidance using the sensing signal processing, filtering techniques, and advanced control methods they learned in class.
After the competition, students were tasked to develop a report describing how they would design a boat for ocean conservation (inspired by Bosch) and to identify and address current challenges and gaps for creating future autonomous boats.
