{"id":106,"date":"2015-09-14T09:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:30:21","slug":"autonomy-is-cool-and-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2015\/09\/14\/autonomy-is-cool-and-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomy is Cool&#8230; and Hard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in the last week of August, I joined The University of Alabama&#8217;s IEEE Autonomous Robotics Senior Design Team for 2016. I am the System Architecture and Integration Lead. UA has sent fiercely competitive teams to this competition for the past several years, though none have won. This year&#8217;s team is staffed with motivated, driven individuals and we are attempting to bring home first place for UA for the first time.<br \/>\nI have linked the official competition rules below.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1ITIsL9fpTk5HKEJW1NENVrkgfCgXqONWpm0sevzeYmo\/edit#\">IEEE Hardware Competition 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in the last week of August, I joined The University of Alabama&#8217;s IEEE Autonomous Robotics Senior Design Team for 2016. I am the System Architecture and Integration Lead. UA has sent fiercely competitive teams to this competition for the past several years, though none have won. This year&#8217;s team is staffed with motivated, driven individuals and we are attempting to bring home first place for UA for the first time. I have linked the official competition rules below. 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