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- DARPA Grand Challenge Race, L.A. to Vegas - A race of autonomous ground vehicles from the vicinity of Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 2004. The purpose of the race is to encourage the accelerated development of autonomous vehicle technologies that could be applied to military requirements.
- DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 - A DARPA-sponsored series of races across difficult terrain. The vehicles in the races are autonomous (self-driven) vehicles built by various teams. Racers' progress, links to team websites, details about the course, and images from the final race.
- NPR : Competing in the Government's Robot Race - Renee Montagne talks with Michael Griffis, owner of Eigenpoint Company. Griffis helped design a robot that is competing in this year's DARPA Grand Challenge. [3:02 streaming audio broadcast]
- CNN.com - Robots fail to complete Grand Challenge - Overview of the event.
- Team CIMAR - University of Florida. News, photo gallery, press releases, and overview of the team and vehicle.
- Team Overbot - Project overview, news, and photos.
- Ensco, Inc - Virginia firm specializing in manufacturing/distribution systems, automated baggage inspection system, web systems, process control systems and embedded real-time controls.
- Team CalTech - Project and team overview, news, and image gallery.
- Geophysical Institute Robot Racing Team - Project overview, photos, and press releases.
- SciAutonics LLC - Company overview, press releases, and contact details.
Wikipedia Articles
- DARPA Grand Challenge - The DARPA Grand Challenge is a prize competition for driverless cars, sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the central research organization of the United States Department of Defense. Congress has authorized DARPA to award cash prizes to further DARPA’s mission to sponsor revolutionary, high-payoff research ...
- TerraMax (vehicle) - TerraMax is an autonomous tactical cargo hauler fielded by Oshkosh Truck Corporation, University of Parma's Vislab (Artificial Vision and Intelligent Systems Lab) and Rockwell Collins, also known under the name of Big Truck Robotics, that participated in both the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. To navigate the terrain, the vehicle utilized 3 LIDAR laser-ranging units (one of which featuring 4 planes), 3 cameras, and 2 GPS navigation systems.
- Perrone Robotics - Perrone Robotics is a robotics software company based out of Charlottesville, Virginia and formed in 2001. The company formed Team Jefferson as a low budget side project in 2004 to build an autonomous robotic dune buggy for participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
- Sebastian Thrun - Sebastian Thrun (born 1967 in Solingen, Germany) is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). He led the development of the robotic vehicle Stanley, which won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 and brought Stanford a two-million dollar prize.
- Kat-5 (vehicle) - Kat-5 is an autonomous vehicle created by Team Gray, an organization comprised of employees from The Gray Insurance Company and students from Tulane University's School of Engineering, for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.