{"id":20962,"date":"2020-10-03T14:33:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/?p=20962"},"modified":"2020-10-03T14:56:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T18:56:55","slug":"introducing-the-autonomous-vehicle-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/2020\/10\/introducing-the-autonomous-vehicle-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Autonomous Vehicle Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This past spring, Ethan Fahnestock (\u201821), our Data Acquisition Lead at the time, began a senior design project centered around turning a previous Baja vehicle into an electronically controlled vehicle. With the semester cut short and with garnered interest of the project, the team decided to turn it into a Project Team Lead position. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20972 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-1024x743.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"819\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-1024x743.png 1024w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-768x557.png 768w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-1536x1115.png 1536w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-24x17.png 24w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-36x26.png 36w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle-48x35.png 48w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Autonomous_Vehicle.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This fall, the team is focusing its efforts to refine designs for control mechanisms for the brakes, accelerator, and steering, while taking advantage of the team\u2019s new 3D printer. In the spring, the team is hoping to build an autonomy architecture on top of these control systems. If you are interested in learning more about this new position, please email Ethan at efahnest@u.rochester.edu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21002 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"846\" height=\"796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan.png 846w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan-300x282.png 300w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan-768x723.png 768w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan-36x34.png 36w, https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ethan-48x45.png 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 846px) 100vw, 846px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past spring, Ethan Fahnestock (\u201821), our Data Acquisition Lead at the time, began a senior design project centered around turning a previous Baja vehicle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20962"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21222,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20962\/revisions\/21222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sa.rochester.edu\/baja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}