KEEN | Spring 2019

PYRO Robotics – Rossum Rumblers Robotics Club

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The VEX Robotics Competition, presented by the Robotics Education & Competition Foundation, is one of the world’s largest robotics competitions. Each year, an engineering challenge is presented to the elementary, middle school, high school, and university students. Students are tasked to build innovative robots and compete in that year’s game challenge with the ultimate goal of qualifying for and winning the World Championship in Louisville, Kentucky held every year in April.

Student researcher

Mason Smith

Engineering (robotics)

Hometown: Phoenix, Arizona

Graduation date: Spring 2020

More projects from the current symposium

Sean M. Lowe

Computer systems engineering

Improving Hardware Verification Coverage using LLMs

Integrating fine-tuned large language models in hardware verification automates testbench creation, cuts resources and speeds up the verification process.

Mentor: Aman Arora

Program: FURI

David M. McComas

Electrical engineering

Diamond Static Induction Transistors

Diamond static induction transistors will achieve higher output power than the leading technology at high-frequency, very-high-frequency and ultra-high-frequency bands.

Mentor: Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal

Program: FURI

Daniel Hur

Electrical engineering

Advancing Wireless Network Efficiency with a Hierarchical Beam Search Algorithm for RIS-Enabled mmWave Systems

The development of an energy-efficient Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface prototype will significantly enhance the energy efficiency of mmWave-based wireless networks.

Mentor: Georgios Trichopoulos

Program: FURI