Autonomous Vehicle News
The vehicle is a result of Clemson’s flagship rapid vehicle prototype program, Deep Orange, housed within the university’s two-year master’s degree focused on systems integration in automotive engineering. Two cohorts of Deep Orange students collaborated across three years to develop this autonomous, high-speed, off-road relief vehicle from the ground up. Students worked with faculty and staff at CU-ICAR, along with the project’s primary sponsor U.S. Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center. The partnership was designed to propel research breakthroughs in off-road vehicle autonomy, powertrain electrification, and digital engineering tools to more effectively support the mission of GVSC. Paredis oversaw the Deep Orange program during both cohorts.