Two UT Arlington student-engineering teams win international challenges

Two UT Arlington student-engineering teams captured first-place honors at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Hong Kong. The ICRA is the flagship academic conference for robotics. The event drew 2,000 in attendance from around the world. Isura Ranatunga, a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering; Sandesh Gowda and Shweta Hardas, both master’s candidates in electrical engineering; competed in the inaugural 2014 Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge as Team Orion and accurately located more land mines through their mine detection