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Congratulations goes to Edinburgh Napier University Student Zin Lin Htun, who was awarded third place in the Young Software Engineer of the Year awards.\u00a0 Zin aimed to construct a multimodal robot that can walk, drive and carry out hybrid operations.<\/p>\n

The 36th<\/sup> annual Young Software Engineer of the Year awards was organised by ScotlandIS<\/a> and took place in Edinburgh on 25th September.\u00a0 The awards recognise the best and brightest computing science students that Scottish universities have to offer.\u00a0 The criteria used included degree of innovation, technical difficulty, level of knowledge and previous research as well as commercial and social relevance. Quality of engineering, planning, organisation and standard of presentation were also considered.<\/p>\n

Zin has just completed his BEng Computing programme with first-class Honours and a University award.\u00a0 Simon Smith supervised Zin on his project titled “Building the prototype of the Autonomous Driverless System\u2014Mammal-like\u00a0 transformer (ADS-MT) and simultaneously Evaluating using real-world and simulation environments”.<\/p>\n

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Zin has also been accepted onto a PhD programme at Napier that Dr Brian Davison<\/a> will supervise along with Dr Carl Strathearn<\/a> on the topic of anticipatory navigation for autonomous robots.\u00a0 Zin has developed a good knowledge of robot navigation through his participation in the Formula Student team where he focused on developing simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. He will be building on this work in his PhD.<\/p>\n

See article<\/a> for more information about the event.<\/p>\n

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