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DARPA Announces 2005 Grand Challenge Semifinalists

Posted by timothy on from the batmobile-lost-a-wheel-so-can't-enter dept.

Mockingbird writes "DARPA announced 40 semifinalists for the 2005 Grand Challenge autonomous robot race today. Notable remaining teams include the Carnegie Mellon University Red Team, Stanford Racing and a high school team, the Palos Verde Road Warriors. 78 teams missed the cut. The race, which will take place on Oct. 8, 2005 features a $2 million prize for the first team whose robot crosses 175 miles of the Mojave in under ten hours. The robots must be fully autonomous, with no team intervention allowed once the vehicle is launched. The first race was held in 2003, when the most successful team managed to log only 7.4 miles."

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  1. Re:hmm.. rtfa? by heli0 · · Score: 3, Informative
    http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/overview.html
    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.
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    Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way...
  2. Many of the robots are street legal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Team DAD and The Golem Group to name only two.

  3. Re:Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    our's ran netbsd, which caused us some problems (ie, no native threading until 2.0, problems with large shared memory blocks)

    which is not to say that the OS kept our team out of the qualifiers, we had plenty of problems besides that.

  4. Re:Stanford's got this in the bag. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Several other teams are street legal. Team DAD (IIRC) for one actually drove to the challenge with the team inside the car. PVRW may be as well. Team Tormenta is also street legal, if you disengage the steering controller.

  5. Re:Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    The Golem Group runs Linux. Can't speak for the others.

  6. First race was March 13, 2004 by KFury · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not 2003...

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    Kevin Fox
  7. Re:Stanford's got this in the bag. by Animats · · Score: 2, Informative
    No, they had to get a ride out of the California Speedway to a car rental place and rent their own car.

    I've met the Team Dad people. I'm very impressed.

  8. Re:Is the motorcycle running this year? by georgewilliamherbert · · Score: 2, Informative
    IMHO it was the coolest; but I'm too lazy to look it up.
    Yep.

    Blue Team

  9. Wired Mag on previous race results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wired magazine has an pretty funny article on the results of the 2003 race with a description with what went wrong for each team.
    http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.05/start.htm l?pg=15

  10. Re:Yeah, but... by zebbo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Team Jefferson uses Fedora Core 3 and Java, even embedded java (http://jstamp.com/) http://teamjefferson.com/