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Students Awarded for Smartphone-Driven Autonomous Car

At the 2013 Queensland iAwards in Brisbane, Australia, a team of information and communications technology (ICT) students from Griffith University won an award for designing a smartphone-driven automated vehicle. The key goal of the iAwards is to discover and reward ICT innovations that will have a positive impact in Australia and on a global scale. The Griffith University student team created a small prototype model of the autonomous car and designed some of its components using 3D printer technology. "A normal unmanned vehicle would usually use a camera or a different sensor on the top, but the uniqueness in this car is that most of the sensors are used from the mobile phone," said team member Michael Lennon.

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    00:00:04 powerful and affordable smartphone technology is making the driverless car of the future more of a reality hopefully we'll be able to see people sitting on our autonomous car using their smartphones in the real assciation in the real environment a team of information and Communications technology students from Griffith University on the GF Coast has won an

    00:00:24 award for designing a smartphone driven automated vehicle at the 2013 Queensland eye Awards in Brisbane we actually awarded for the division called undergraduate tertiary student award um as you can see behind we were actually awarded for an unmanned vehicle that is driven by a mobile phone the I Awards is Australia's Premier Technology Awards program aimed at recognizing the

    00:00:47 contribution of information and Communications technology as well as the impact which the development and application of Innovative Technologies have in Australia and globally the key features of our vehicle are that uh the phone camera is used to detect lanes and the GPS on the phone will be used to determine the route and whether you're on the right Road the Queensland

    00:01:12 government has continued its support of the state iawards by providing financial assistance to winning teams to go on to the National I Awards we think we have actually won the award because of the uniqueness unicus meaning a normal unmanned vehicle would actually use a a camera or a different sens sensor or a liar on the top but the uniqueness in this car is that most of the sensors are

    00:01:37 used from the mobile phone success at the local level in the iar program can provide a pathway for ICT students professionals and organizations to achieve International recognition [Music]