Auburn University

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What is AIRC?

• Auburn University IEEE Robotics Committee is an
  umbrella organization for a variety of robotics
  projects.
• Formed in response to student requests
• Projects/competitions
• Undergraduate research
• Many of our students want to strengthen their
  expertise!
• Participation not limited to undergraduates.

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Organization
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Student Goals

• Student organizations
• HKN top academic students in dept.
• IEEE active (motivated) students in the dept
• Combine get enthusiastic, capable participants
• Robotics competitions and projects
• Long term teamwork
• Undergraduate research
• Get experience not available in normal
  coursework.

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Faculty Goals

• Increase research funding
• Integrate and strengthen existing research
  programs at AU MEMS, autonomous vehicles, signal
  processing, embedded processors, control,
  navigation, image processing and vision, sensor
  fusion, cooperative robotics, etc.
• Develop research labor force
• Identify potential graduate students
• Undergraduate research opportunities

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Funding plan

• Need funds for equipment (development
  workstations, processor cards, sensors, power,
  batteries, etc.) and competition travel.
• Elizabeth Hammonds AIRC fundraising/PR officer.
• Will establish AU gift account for contributions.
• Undergraduates will work for academic credit.
• Graduate level competition requires
  significantly larger funding base (GRA).

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Infrastructure plan

• Current location plan
• senior design lab
• Cooperative Robotics lab (Roppel)
• Important to have gathering point for team
  cohesion.

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Danger ahead

• It will kill your research program. Peter
  Jones, AU-ME mini-Baja/Formula SAE advisor
• ME competitions expensive, high admin overhead
• SoutheastCon slightly more than a senior design.
  
• Emphasis of AIRC
• Visibility, success, and funding of AU ECE
  research
• develop ugrad skill base, enthusiasm, available
  ugrad research labor, recruit to graduate program.

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Schedule

• Spring/summer 2006
• tinker and evaluate available technologies.
• Start fundraising.
• Fall 2006
• Start formal team meetings and work.