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The team from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, winner of the final of the robotics competition applied to autonomous vehicles of the Sener Foundation
22/07/2024
The Sener Foundation has held at its headquarters in Tres Cantos the final of the robotics competition applied to autonomous vehicles ‘Sener’s Bot Talent’, aimed at university teams made up of final year and master’s degree students. The winning team was from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the ‘Rovernetas’ team, which won the overall prize of €1,200. Teams from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) also took part in the competition.
Foto de grupo de los participantes en la competición
Equipo de mentores de Sener
Premio de la Competición – Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Entrega el premio Andrés Sendagorta, presidente de Sener y de la Fundación Sener
Premio de Diseño – Universidad Europea de Madrid
Premio Tecnológico – Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña. Entrega el premio Oiane Niebla, responsable de Open Innovation de Sener
Equipo de participantes de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
During the trials, held in Tres Cantos, the teams applied their skills as engineering students to solve various problems related to the guidance, navigation, and control of an autonomous ground vehicle in a real environment. The groups created and programmed an autonomous land rover using the same set of parts provided by Sener and the design published by NASA, which they have been working on since the beginning of the year and put to the test in the final.The participants demonstrated their ability to perceive the vehicle’s environment, control actuators and plan trajectories in a real environment by passing several specific tests that evaluated the accuracy of movement, identification of objects through image processing, localisation with a Kalman filter (a very useful mathematical tool for including real-world measurements in a system) and route planning.The professional jury, appointed by the Sener Foundation and Sener and made up of 5 judges and 3 supporting members (including Sener professionals and members of the Spanish Automation Committee), assessed each aspect of the teams’ performance.In addition to the main prize, two additional prizes were awarded: the Technological Prize, which recognises the most innovative solution adopted by the participants, and the Design Prize, which values the cleanliness and neatness of the assembly of the rover.The winner of the Technology Prize, worth €1,000, was also the UPC team. The €800 design prize was won by the ‘Talos’ team from the UEM.
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The Sener Foundation has held at its headquarters in Tres Cantos the final of the robotics competition applied to autonomous vehicles ‘Sener’s Bot Talent’, aimed at university teams made up of final year and master’s degree students. The winning team was from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), the ‘Rovernetas’ team, which won the overall prize of €1,200. Teams from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM) and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) also took part in the competition.
