Students’ research in Autonomous Systems Engineering

A unique opportunity to research and develop autonomous systems in an intense 3 month bachelor project for students following Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

The Autonomous Systems Engineering (ASE) project centers around the custom built ASE-Rover-1, a modular, powerful and robust robotic vehicle that can be equipped with a variety of sensors and cameras to react to the environment autonomously. In groups of three, students choose a specific subdomain of autonomous systems to research and use the ASE-Rover-1 to implement, test and validate their ideas. The ASE-Team provides a plethora of topics and research questions as well as support during the project. Students will deliver a well written thesis along with the source code of their implementations and make a presentation showing their findings.

For detailed course information click here.

For the fifth year in a roe, CS students took part in the annual NXP competition. In 2023 Auke Buchel, Max Gallup and Elias Groot, Bsc CS students participated in the finals of the NXP cup in Bucharest, Romania and ended up on the 10th place.

The competition gathers yearly 100 student teams from Europe, Middle East and Africa and challenges them to engineer the most accurate and fast software-controlled autonomous car.
This nice result was made possible due to the continuous support of the CS department, Beta FMI, Beta Electronica (Niels Althuisius) and IXA.

100% VU-made Rover qualified for the NXP intelligent car racing cup finals.

CS students Elias Groot, Max Gallup, Hugo van Wezenbeek and Eduardo Lira built together a new computer -controlled model car which they tested on 17 April 2024 at the qualifiers of the NXP cup in Eindhoven. Elias & Max won the race and Hugo& Eduardo ended on the third place.

The superfast rover was developed in cooperation with Beta Electronica and FMI groups, in the context of the Autonomous Systems Engineering (ASE) educational initiative. ASE is funded by the CS department and coordinated by Natalia Silvis-Cividjian and Joshua Kenyon.

For more about results, go to: NXP Cup | NXP Semiconductors
VU Computer Science students win the NXP Intelligent car racing competition

On 29 May 2024, a VU CS student team (Elias Groot, Max Gallup, Eduardo Lira, Hugo van Wezenbeek) participated in a very exciting and competitive intelligent car race organised by NXP in Hamburg. 20 selected teams from 7 countries (Germany, Romania, France, Czech Republic, Zwitserland, Lebanon and The Netherlands) competed and the selfmade VU ASE Rover won. Congratulations! We are very proud and happy about this absolute victory, which was possible only due to many other people. Many thanks go to the CS departement for their financial support, Beta Electronical systems group (especially Niels Althuisius) and Fine mechanics group for their assistance in designing and building the model car, and IXA for providing the space for training. The ASE (Autonomous Systems Engineering) educational initiative is coordinated by Natalia Silvis-Cividjian. Click here for more.

Students’ research in Autonomous Systems Engineering

CS students take part in the annual NXP competition

For the fifth year in a roe, CS students took part in the annual NXP competition. In 2023 Auke Buchel, Max Gallup and Elias Groot, Bsc CS students participated in the finals of the NXP cup in Bucharest, Romania and ended up on the 10th place.

VU Computer Science students win the NXP Intelligent car racing competition

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