College of Computing News

Michigan Technological University's Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab brought home an unprecedented win in the international Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge. Their victory could set a new standard for robotic navigational algorithms. Amna Mazen had her sights set on a win for more than a year. The assistant professor of applied computing and manufacturing and mechanical engineering technology has been working on her algorithm for mobile robot navigation since her Ph.D. in robotics at the University of Detroit Mercy. Prior to graduating, Mazen traveled to Yokohama, Japan, for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) to watch and study the third annual Benchmark Autonomous Robot Navigation Challenge. A year later, as a new Michigan Tech faculty member, she and her team won the challenge by a wide margin.