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Spring 2022 Big Idea Challenge: Autonomous Emergency Response (AER)

The Big Idea Challenge: Presented by Jodsaas Center with support from the Edson and Margaret Larson Foundation

Spring 2022

Autonomous Emergency Response (AER)

 

AER is critically needed for war, disasters relief, emergencies, and other critical situations.

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Figure 1: UN Disaster Statistics: (a) World-Wide Historical Trends and (b) 2005 Statistics (note logarithmic scale) [ Image is used for Education Purpose Under Fair Usage (1)].

 

Students are encouraged to submit their ideas about AER (for example robots, autonomous and AI driven technologies but not limited to these) by March 25 in the format of 1-page proposal (rough drawing, “out of box design” welcome) to surojit.gupta@engr.und.edu.

Selected students will be trained by Drs. Whitney and Gupta from Center of Innovation and ME

Date of Competition: April 28th

Presented by Jodsaas Center with support from the Edson and Margaret Larson Foundation