Successfully navigating roundabouts and obeying stop signs despite having no hands on the wheel, a team of Northeastern University robotics students won a self-driving car competition at the American Control Conference, a premier conference in robotics and automatic control.
The team included first-year students Kian Behzad and Rojin Zandi, rising second-year student Elehah Motamedi, and Dinesh Murugan, who is in the final year of a master’s program.
Milad Siami, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern and faculty adviser to the team, says that he was “immensely proud” of “truly exceptional students.”
“This victory is a shining example of our team’s intellect, effective collaboration, and their relentless passion for pushing boundaries in autonomous systems,” Siami…
