Fifteen Teams Selected for DARPA Grand Challenge

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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Streaming Broadcast over the Internet

[Doodhwala]

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.

Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet

[uss_valiant]

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

Departure.

[cynicalmoose]

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.