Final-year engineering students put self-driving buggies to the test on campus

At Harper Adams University, our engineering students are pushed to think critically, meet industry needs and develop technologies that solve even the toughest of problems. 

As part of their end of module practical exam, our final-year engineering students have been challenged with building self-driving buggies capable of completing an on-site obstacle dirt track.

Mechatronics Technician and Teaching Assistant, Tom Williamson posted to his LinkedIn saying: "Robot buggy challenge - the ultimate 'end of module' pratical exam for our 4th year (Level 6) Eng students at Harper Adams University ... design and build autonomous self driving buggies capable or completing a dirt track obstacle course...

"What was also very interesting was a few days prior to the assessment, I sent around one of our 'in uni' Atlas Class buggies to check course conditions.

"The Atlas was not setup for the course and was running code developed last year by a then 2nd year student Joshua Tapner for a completely different module on a more simpler indoor concreate / tape line follow track....

"The fact any of this got around at all was rather impressive! And a nice example of how student developed code can be used by the university to further projects and research."