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Some background information and an overview of the module. Information on this year's contest. Academic and technical staff involved in this module. This year's competitors Information on how the module is assessed including important deadlines Links to useful resources and similar activities elsewhere. Team progress in meeting objectives. |
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The School of Electronic Engineering would like to gratefully acknowledge Farnell for their contribution to this module. Farnell have generously donated prizes and a perpetual trophy for the contest which forms an integral part of the assesment of this module. |
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Dublin, 6th Feb. 2012: In a shock announcement today, authorities in Dublin unveiled a drastic plan to "finally" resolve the city's long standing taxi shortage. It has been revealed that a secret project is now underway, in collaboration with an unnamed North Dublin University, to develop a state of the art robotic taxi service for the city. The fleet of so-called "RoboCabs" will be deployed to help deal with the city's ongoing traffic problems. While technical details remain scarce, drawings released with the announcement reveal a family of futuristic RoboCab vehicles - that (strangely) look like they have built using toy plastic building bricks! A spokesman said that the new vehicles would be equipped with the latest high tech control systems, rendering them capable of automatically identifying required client destinations, even when speech is slurred or masked by strong regional accents. It is understood that this will be achieved through the use of bar-coded stickers automatically dispensed at taxi ranks. Routes will include an express airport service whereby passengers will be auotmatically ejected upon arrival, facilitating faster moving taxi queues. |
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