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DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous car contest
With all the advances in computers, it's interesting to know that they still can't get them to do what an average human at the controls probably could, without too much trouble.
2004 Grand Challenge pdf
2005 Grand Challenge
The First Grand Challenge: Across the Mojave
The 2004 Grand Challenge field test of autonomous ground vehicles ran from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada offered a $1 million prize. From the qualifying round at the California Speedway, 15 finalists emerged to attempt the Grand Challenge. However, the prize went unclaimed as no vehicles were able to complete the difficult desert route.
The Next Grand Challenge
The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge will be held on October 8, 2005 in the desert Southwest. The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million. The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The exact route will not be revealed until two hours before the event begins. Detailed information can be found in the rules.
There's a program on cable where competitors design remote controlled robots to navigate a course and fight each other (name escapes me at the moment), and it just strikes me funny that you probably could put a kid in there with a sledgehammer, and he'd beat all the other robots hands down. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
With all the advances in computers, it's interesting to know that they still can't get them to do what an average human at the controls probably could, without too much trouble.
2004 Grand Challenge pdf
2005 Grand Challenge
The First Grand Challenge: Across the Mojave
The 2004 Grand Challenge field test of autonomous ground vehicles ran from Barstow, California to Primm, Nevada offered a $1 million prize. From the qualifying round at the California Speedway, 15 finalists emerged to attempt the Grand Challenge. However, the prize went unclaimed as no vehicles were able to complete the difficult desert route.
The Next Grand Challenge
The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge will be held on October 8, 2005 in the desert Southwest. The team that develops an autonomous ground vehicle that finishes the designated route most quickly within 10 hours will receive $2 million. The route will be no more than 175 miles over desert terrain featuring natural and man-made obstacles. The exact route will not be revealed until two hours before the event begins. Detailed information can be found in the rules.
There's a program on cable where competitors design remote controlled robots to navigate a course and fight each other (name escapes me at the moment), and it just strikes me funny that you probably could put a kid in there with a sledgehammer, and he'd beat all the other robots hands down. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
