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Fifteen Teams Selected for DARPA Grand Challenge

Posted by michael on from the lowered-expectations dept.

doughnuthole writes "The official posting has been made of the 15 teams that qualified for the Grand Challenge, seven of which completed the entire QID course. The top three teams, and thus those who get to start first, were the Red Team, SciAutonics II, and Team Caltech. The race starts at 6:30 am Saturday, with teams leaving every 5 minutes. A live webcast will be available at grandchallenge.org." Reader uss_valiant writes "Tomshardware runs an article about DARPA's Grand Challenge. It features new pictures, the DARPA video of the qualification and covers some technical challenges such as the obstacle detection."

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  1. Streaming Broadcast over the Internet by Doodhwala · · Score: 5, Informative


    For all those of us who don't have access to the DARPA channel, we can stream the telecast live from here.

    These are the same people who appeared in this slashdot story and seems to be different from the "live webcast" mentioned in the story which only appears to have a tracking feature.

    1. Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet by uss_valiant · · Score: 5, Informative

      And what about the official 3d tracking (macromedia 3d shockwave app, looks great)?
      It uses about 150 MB RAM and 100% CPU on my celeron 1.4 GHZ...
      According to this 3d map (updated every 30 seconds) the Caltech Bot is running since a 30 minutes or so. But I couldn't observe any movement...
      As a side note: The videos on tomshardware are not exactly the same as those from the official website (very long ones, only the last 2 show vehicles that master the qualification without longer pauses).
      The videos from tomshardware are much shorter, a lot less boring ;) and show the autonomous vehicles going havoc :)

      This is the list of all qualified teams (from the new .pdf):

      1. (22) Red Team - Pittsburgh, PA
      2. (21) SciAutonics II - Thousand Oaks, CA
      3. (05) Team Caltech - Pasadena, CA
      4. (07) Digital Auto Drive (DAD) - Morgan Hill, CA
      5. (25) Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, VA
      6. (23) Axion Racing - Westlake Village, CA
      7. (02) Team CajunBot - Lafayette, LA
      8. (13) Team ENSCO - Falls Church, VA
      9. (04) Team CIMAR - Gainesville, FL and Logan, UT
      10. (10) Palos Verdes High School RoadWarriors - Palos Verdes Estates, CA
      11. (17) SciAutonics I - Thousand Oaks, CA
      12. (20) Team TerraMax - Oshkosh, WI
      13. (15) Team TerraHawk - Gardena, CA
      14. (09) The Golem Group - Santa Monica, CA
      15. (16) The Blue Team - Berkeley, CA

    2. Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet by MyFourthAccount · · Score: 4, Informative

      According to this 3d map (updated every 30 seconds) the Caltech Bot is running since a 30 minutes or so

      Hmm, I don't know how you got that information, but their status page indicates that no-one has started, as of yet (5:10am in Barstow). The race is supposed to start at 6:30am, so that would make sense.

      Maybe they had some incorrect data initially. Anyways, this slightly 'lighter' page shows the status.

      btw, P4-2GHz also at 100% / 125MB RAM

  2. Departure. by cynicalmoose · · Score: 5, Informative

    If a team leaves every 5 minutes, (and assuming the first few hundred yards is relatively easy going - you find that on most courses of any nature), then we are going to have an awful lot of bunching at the first point the vehicles start dropping below 25mph. Interestingly, the rules state that the team in front (i.e. being passed) has right of way, unless E-stopped.

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  3. Re:The race starts at 6:30 am Saturday, by KingOfBLASH · · Score: 4, Informative
    6:30? That means nothing in nowadays world!
    WHAT TIMEZONE???
    Google for Mojave Desert and you'll see the Mojave is in California and Nevada, i.e. PST or MST. Unless of course you think there are more then one Mojave deserts. :-D
  4. For the rest of the world... by Renegade+Lisp · · Score: 4, Informative
    I couldn't find any indication of what time zone they use on the official web site.

    Assuming that "6.30 am" means local time in Barstow, California, that would be 6.30 PST -0800, or 14.30 GMT.

  5. Course length set at 142 miles by Dr_Java · · Score: 4, Informative

    Updated on the live status board A bit short of the original 250miles.

  6. Re:Palos Verdes Road Warriors disabled at start by Mr.+Underhill · · Score: 4, Informative

    The web guy just said they might retry. So the damage cant be bad.

    Other unoffical updates:
    Sandstorm is out with a blown motor.
    Sci II is supposedly still running.
    Caltech is still running technically but is going nowhere fast. Its not stuck or anything tho.
    Dad is running.
    #25 has a stuck brake.
    #23 has GPS problems but they may restart.
    Navigator is stuck real bad in a fence. they are cutting it out.
    #15 lost it hydralic pump
    Cajunbot hit a obstacle right out of the gate.
    Ensco hauled ass out of the gate, made its first turn OK but then rolled on the next.