Monday, October 17, 2011

FREESCALE CUP 2011 WE ARE AT TOP 15


Background
In 2008, Freescale Semiconductor Malaysia had the first Smart Car Competition which was successfully held on 12 and 13 December at SIRIM Hall, Shah Alam, Selangor. Due to economic crisis in 2009, 2nd Smart Car Competition was postponed to 2010. The competition was organized in collaboration with IEEE Malaysia Section, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Event was successfully held on 4 and 5 December 2010 at DECTAR Hall, UKM Bangi, Selangor.
Starting from 2011, Smart Car Competition is known as The Freescale Cup. The competition has caught the attention of MOHE hence was invited to be part of PECIPTA 2011. Tentatively, this year’s competition will be held in collaboration with MOHE, UiTM and IEEE on 13 until 15 September 2011 at KL Convention Centre (KLCC).
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Overview
The Freescale Cup (previously known as Smart Car Competition) is a high speed, autonomous, race of RC scale cars. The race is part of Freescale’s Univeristy Programs to promote engineering in the classroom. It will bring more challenge on programming and electronic part. It is open to all local and private universities in Malaysia where students have to come up with a team of 3 (maximum) plus 1 lecturer as advisor.
Well, what is this Smart Car Competition about? Freescale provide us the model of the car, dc motor, battery charger, battery, Microcontroller, and also a programmer board. Then you have to use what you got and add in what you wanted to add in to make the car run on the track in the competition. The winner will be the car that finishes a lap with the fastest time. Sounds easy but the process is not as easy as you thought. It spend three month to build the car intelligently.
This competition includes IPTA and IPTS University where totally 42 team joined. UUM is the first time joined this competition under Information Technology (Artificial Intelligent) and bring the name of university management joined the engineering competition. It will open the eye to another university that UUM also capable joint this kind of competition.
For information this competition has three rounds where the first round is the perquisite to next round and 3rd round is the final round. For this round UUM succeed to final round where compete with team from famous engineering university.

UUM Team members:
·         Shahrul Azmi bin Mohd Yusof (Supervisor)
·         Nurhafiz bin Shamssudin (193398)
·         Sanjeev selan a/l Mohan (193368)


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