VT CRO • SoutheastCon

SoutheastCon

ECE Department

Building a fully autonomous vehicle for IEEE’s 2027 “Stock Car Race” challenge, focused on precise navigation and high‑speed obstacle avoidance.

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Huntsville, AL

Focused on end-to-end robotics development, our SoutheastCon team is currently engineering a fully autonomous vehicle for the IEEE SoutheastCon 2027 Hardware Competition. Set in Daytona Beach, this year's "Stock Car Race" challenge demands precise autonomous navigation and high-speed obstacle avoidance.

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Joshua Smith

Chief Engineer of SoutheastCon

We are VT CRO—the Competitive Robotics Organization at Virginia Tech and the largest design team on campus. Our multidisciplinary club features eight specialized design teams and four support teams out of three labs.

"If we're going to do it wrong, we might as well do it right."

Marco Gonzalez Hauger
Founder of VT CRO

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