UF president meets with engineering's award-winning robotics teams today

September 30, 2013

WHAT:
University of Florida President Bernie Machen will visit the Machine Intelligence Lab at the College of Engineering to congratulate two teams that excelled in competitions held by the Association for Unmanned Vehicles Systems International this summer.

PropaGator won first place in its first year participating in the AUVIS’s RoboBoat competition. SubjuGator secured second place at AUVSI’s RoboSub competition. SubjuGator has a long history of placing in the top three at this event.

Both the PropaGator and the SubjuGator, as well as other robotic vehicles built by students of the MIL – and student groups Gator Robotics and UF SAE – will be on display. The media are invited to tour the facility with Machen and meet the faculty advisors of the MIL and their students.

WHEN:
4 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30

WHERE:
Begin at the Machine Intelligence Lab, Room 325, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Building B, 633 Gale Lemerand Drive. Walking tour will include Gator Robotics and the Design & Manufacturing Laboratory (MAE-C, Rooms 002 and 010).

WHO:
Machen will be joined by A. Antonio Arroyo, director of MIL; Eric Schwartz, associate director of MIL; and students from the SubjuGator and PropaGator teams.

BACKGROUND:
The MIL is composed of undergraduate and graduate students from the departments of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Computer & Information Science and Engineering.

For more information on the teams, go to:
http://www.subjugator.org or http://mil.ufl.edu/propagator.

For more information about the student groups go to:
http://gatorrobotics.com and http://gatormotorsports.com.

CONTACT:
Eric Schwartz, 352-392-2541, ems@mil.ufl.edu