CAT Vehicle 2014

Cody Ross

University of Houston Student Spends Summer at the Controls of a Driverless Car

College students across the country have rounded the halfway point of the fall 2014 semester and are settling in for the push to the finish. Thanks to a UA College of Engineering summer research program focused on driverless car technology, University of Houston junior Cody Ross had a head start this semester expanding his skill set.

Amanda Pyryt: Switched Control of an Autonomous Car

Amanda Pyryt of the University of Maryland Baltimore County was a participant in the 2014 in the Cat Vehicle REU at the University of Arizona. Check out how she describes what her experience was like as part of the REU program, and her project on switched control for driverless cars.

Amanda Pyryt, University of Maryland Baltimore County

Anthony Rodriguez: Model-based Autonomous Vehicle Switched-Control Technology

Anthony Rodriguez spent the summer participating in an NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. He was a rising senior at the University of Arizona, and his project focused on switched models for vehicle controllers.

Anthony Rodriguez, University of Arizona

Rachel Powers: Selecting Sensors for Autonomous Vehicles

Rachel Powers of the University of Arizona participated in the Cat Vehicle 2014 REU at the University of Arizona. In this video she describes her project, and how the cost of the sensors on top of these vehicles can be reduced. She was a rising senior in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Carlos Asuncion: Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Selection

Carlos Asuncion of UC Berkeley participated in the Cat Vehicle 2014 REU at the University of Arizona. Focusing on how autonomous vehicles might impact the future was a key part of his summer experience.

Destinee Batson: Autonomous Cars for High-School Students

How can you design experiments that High School students (with no coding experience) can do on a full-sized car? That's what Destinee Batson of Northeastern University studied in Summer 2014 for the CAT Vehicle REU at the University of Arizona.

Destinee Batson, Northeastern University

Alice Kim: Safe maneuvers for High School Experiments

If you were going to turn loose a high school student with a full-sized car that they could only control via computer, how safe would you feel? Alice Kim of Rice University tackled this problem as part of the CAT Vehicle Summer REU in 2014.

Torger Miller: Routing an Autonomous Car for Signal Strength

Torger Miller of the College of Wooster was a participant in the 2014 Cat Vehicle REU at the University of Arizona. In this article he describes his project, and the experience he had in Tucson.

Carlos Asuncion Interviewed on Arizona Horizon in Phoenix

Today's cars are getting more and more sophisticated in their behaviors, but true autonomy needs truly expensive sensors. Carlos Asuncion of UC Berkeley participated in the CAT Vehicle program in 2014, and he was interviewed by Ted Simons for the Arizona Horizon program on PBS 8 (KAET) in Phoenix, AZ.

To watch the entire interview, visit http://www.azpbs.org/arizonahorizon/detailvid.php?id=15095

Carlos Asuncion (2014 Participant) on Public Television

Driverless Car Hits the Road

On Tuesday, August 8, 2014, students from across the nation participating in a College of Engineering research program capped off the summer by taking the UA’s driverless car for a spin.