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Meet the Team: 

     Team Nasti consists of two senior undergraduate students and two junior undergraduate students. Individual Bio's are listed below:


                                         Jeremy Borgman, Senior Undergraduate EE
                                        
Team Captain, Embedded Software Engineer

As team captain, Jeremy is in charge of interfacing all of the different sub-systems on team NASTI. This is his third autonomous vehicle at Bradley University and he loves the unique challenges present in robotics. Jeremy has taken a variety of classes from machine intelligence to a low-level interfacing lab to allow him to view autonomous vehicles on a system level. When not working with team NASTI in the lab, he enjoys reading and rockin' out on the drums with his band.

 


                                        Terry Max Christy, Senior Undergraduate EE
    
                                    Lead Software Design, Vision Control System Engineer

Max takes on any challenge that involves making stuff think for itself. His unique set of hardware and software knowledge are exemplified in his autonomous systems. As a senior undergraduate student at Bradley University, Max has tackled numerous challenges involving autonomous robotic systems that require basic transistor knowledge all the way to object oriented C++ coding. His passion for robotics has lead him to the lead software position on team NASTI where he currently is heading the vision based navigation for the project. When he's not busy coding something amazing, he spends his time playing video games, hanging out with his dogs, and traveling around the world. 



                                         Zackary Knoll, Junior Undergraduate EE
                                         Power Electronics Engineer   

zackZack Knoll, one of the two junior undergraduates working on the project, was the main designer of the power electronics for the motor speed controllers, and will be working on the navigation system as well as the competition subtasks.  He has been fascinated by electronic systems from a young age and enjoys taking on small projects in his spare time.  He enjoys the challenge and practical thinking that comes with engineering and hopes to take a job that requires both hardware and software design challenges like the robotic boat has presented.



                                       

                                        Steven Blass, Junior Undergraduate EE
    
                                    Microcontroller Software Engineer

stevenSteven Blass just completed his junior year in Electrical Engineering at Bradley this fall.  Steven worked on many low level micro-controller applications for team NASTI, including interfacing, communication protocols and motor control.  This was his first autonomous vehicle project, but definitely not his last.  He is interning at Caterpillar this summer working with embedded systems.  In his free time he enjoys running, Frisbee golf, and playing guitar.