The Robot Car
Punit Mukhija · 1997
This paper is based on my experiences as a member of the University of Tennessee's Robot Car team for Southeastcon'97. The object of this paper is to present the technical, as well as the non-technical aspects encountered during the preparation for and at Southeastcon'97. This paper is about the Robot Car competition and about my personal successes and failures associated with the competition. I have attempted to present the paper in a manner so that even a reader not familiar with the field of Electrical Engineering may comprehend the paper. The IEEE and Southeastcon'97 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was founded in 1884 by a few practicing electrical engineers. Today the IEEE is comprised of more than 320,000 members in 147 countries and is the world's largest technical professional society. The IEEE focuses on advancing the theory and practice of electrical, electronics and computer engineering (http://www.ieee.org, 07/97). IEEE Southeastcon is an annual technical conference a.imed at bringing together Electrical Engineering professionals, faculty and students through technical sessions, tutorials and exhibits. Participants of the Southeastcon include universities a.nd colleges from the Southeastern part of the United States. Southeastcon'97 was held in Blacksburg, Virginia on the Virginia Tech Campus (http://www.vt.edu, 07/98).