DARPA Urban Challenge
DARPA Urban Challenge : Pole Positions Announced!!
Just minutes ago, Dr. Tony Tether announced the pole positions of the robots as they are unleashed into a simulated urban environment at the Urban Challenge Final Event Saturday. The environment is simulated only in that human-driven vehicles will have roll cages and six point harnesses and all the drivers will be wearing protective head [...]
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Velodyne Prez talks Mobile Sensing
I wrote about the Velodyne sensor a couple of weeks ago touting its commercial viability in the emerging mobile robotics market. I had a chance to talk to one of its inventors today. Velodyne President Bruce Hall made it clear that although his company doesn’t have a vehicular entrant, they are clearly and very visibly [...]
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DARPA Urban Challenge Team Develops Autonomy-In-A-Box Product
Team Gray may not have advanced to the finals but they’ve got their sights on bigger targets. With their latest autonomy in-a-box they may be positioned to become the Microsoft and IBM of autonomous vehicles. Chief Engineer Paul Trepagnier explained that the Autonomous Vehicle System, or AVS for short, is a completely self-contained unit comprised [...]
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DARPA Urban Challenge Update: Only 11 Teams Selected for Final Run
DARPA tightened the scrutiny of the finalist selection process. DARPA originally planned on selecting the top 20 performers to participate in the final event. In a sudden change of plans, DARPA selected 11. The selected teams are: Ben Franklin Racing Team, Philadelphia, PA (Track B) CarOLO, Caroline, NY (Track B) Honeywell/Intelligent Vehicle Solutions, Troy, MI [...]
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Robot Central analyst Ray Renteria is blogging live from the Urban Challenge site in California this week. You can subscribe to his news feed to get a daily digest of all of the Urban Challenge news from Robot Central. Click here and enter your email address to subscribe.
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DARPA Urban Challenge Update: 15 Teams Fighting for 14 Spots
DARPA has already decided that the following six Urban Challenge Teams demonstrated sufficient driving savvy to be invited to Saturday’s final event: Team Cornell Stanford Racing Team Tartan Racing (Carnegie Mellon) VictorTango (Virginia Tech) CarOLO (Track B) Ben Franklin Racing Team (Track B) Of these teams, CarOLO and Ben Franklin Racing Team had not been [...]
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DARPA Urban Challenge Update: 19 Teams Fighting for 16 Positions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is hosting a robotics competition in Victorville, CA on November 3 called the DARPA Urban Challenge in which twenty autonomous vehicles are required to navigate traffic while respecting the rules of the road. An elimination phase called the National Qualifying Event has been underway this week in order [...]
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Georgia Tech-SAIC Sting Racing Team Departs For DARPA Urban Challenge
Team headed to California to compete among 35 semifinalist teams from across the country ATLANTA (October 23, 2007) – The College of Computing at Georgia Tech today announced that the Sting Racing team, a collaboration between Georgia Tech and Science Applications International Corporation [NYSE: SAI], has left for Victorville, Calif. to compete in the [...]
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Team Cybernet on the Road to DARPA Urban Challenge
Semifinalist ”Cybervan” Perfecting New Life-Saving Technology in San Antonio ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 17, 2007–A DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Urban Challenge National Qualifier, Team Cybernet, is en route to Victorville, California, to compete in the final stages of the competition. The team is spending the remaining time before the main event perfecting the [...]
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The Urban Challenge Cometh
[This is a repost of Robot Central's first writeup. We will be counting down to the event where we will be on location providing you with real time updates. --Ray] On November 3, thirty six of the worlds most advanced autonomous vehicles will be competing against each other to be declared the most advanced. Each [...]
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