An Internship Out Of The Ordinary

The autonomous revolution is happening and we are always on the lookout for highly motivated, smart team players that love a challenge. We take pride in having a diverse team and offer opportunities for people at all experience levels including apprentices, interns, graduates and experienced professionals.

This summer, Southampton University student Brian Formento joined our Electrical Design Team as an intern. Brian is currently studying a 4 year MEng Electronic Engineering with Artificial Intelligence course that focuses on the design and implementation of state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques. Aside from his studies, Brian runs the start-up incubator Spark and is a board member on the third biggest business and entrepreneurial society in the UK, Fish on Toast.

Despite his short time with ASV, Brian was able to achieve a great deal, including:

• Completing a re-haul of the central electrical distribution system of the C-Target 9, by replacing a mechanical setup with an electronic interface.
• Reducing material costs by £450 by designing a bespoke PCB to replace some COTS components, reducing manufacturing time by more than half and consequently further reducing labour costs by £1000 per item.
• Designing high frequency solid-state switching to replace control mechanisms.
• Producing in detail test procedures for numerous control containers, increasing consistency, efficiency and quality.
• Forming links between ASV and SotonHack, the biggest hackathon organization in Southampton.

Brian said: ‘The best part of working at ASV is the independence, coffee and seeing and working on projects that are only found in science fiction’.

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