DARPA Announces Grand Challenge 2005
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DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
08/03/2004 08:46 AMDARPA has released the proposed
rules (PDF format) for the DARPA Grand Challenge
2005. This time around teams will be required to submit a video
demonstration of their robot. Perhaps this will cut down on teams that
show up at the final event with a DOA robot. No indication if they
will
reduce the excessive number of way points used in the first event. For
more, see the DARPA discussion
forum or the Slashdot
discussion on the new rules.
DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Announced
DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Announced
06/08/2004 04:55 PMDARPA has announced the date
for the next Grand
Challenge: October 8, 2005. An informational conference for
participants will be held on August 14, 2004 at the Anaheim Marriott
in
Anaheim, Califorinia. The cash prize has doubled from 1 million to 2
million dollars for the first team to complete the challenge. There's
a
already a Slashdot
discussion on the topic.
DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
Announced
DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
Announced
08/02/2004 08:53 PMDIY Team of Hot Rodders’ Among 40 Top
Teams Chosen for 2005 DARPA Grand
Challenge
DIY Team of Hot Rodders’ Among 40 Top
Teams Chosen for 2005 DARPA Grand
Challenge
06/17/2005 02:40 PMLos Angeles based AI Motorvators team in the midst of 2 million dollar
high-tech national competition. MIT, Princeton teams eliminated [PRWEB
Jun 9, 2005]
DARPA Grand Challenge Teams Submit
Videos to DARPA
DARPA Grand Challenge Teams Submit
Videos to DARPA
03/14/2005 05:02 PMSlashdot Mar 13 2005 11:31AM GMT
Still More on the DARPA Grand Challenge
Still More on the DARPA Grand Challenge
02/15/2004 07:43 PMDARPA Grand Challenge PR Problems
DARPA Grand Challenge PR Problems
10/30/2003 11:57 PMThe DARPA Grand
Challenge has generated a lot of interest and there are now over 100
teams preparing robots. Most of them are in for a shock when they find
out DARPA has decided that only 20 robots will be allowed to enter. An
editorial
over at mobilerobotics.org has more details as well as transcript of a
letter DARPA sent to one of the Grand Challenge Teams about the issue.
DARPA Grand Challenge Maps Revealed
DARPA Grand Challenge Maps Revealed
01/05/2004 06:49 PMThere's been lots of hype about DARPA's Grand Challenge - setting up a
250-mile race course that an autonomous vehicle would have to cover in
a limited time period. The original plans said the course would only
be revealed two hours before the race began, but for safety reasons,
all of
the potential routes have already been identified publicly, which
is angering a number of contestants. They believe this will give an
advantage to other contestants who can simply program in the various
courses into their vehicles, which could take away from the whole
point of the race. Already, the article reports that a company is
offering to go over all of the potential courses with a laser and
photographic equipment for any team that wants it. Again, this would
seem to go against the entire point of the race (to create autonomous
vehicles that could travel anywhere with no warning and no human
control). Meanwhile, it looks like a group has taken
my
suggestion and organized a
private
version of such a race for all the teams that got rejected from
the original one. I'm still waiting for them to sign a TV contract to
get these shown on TV alongside Junkyard Wars.
New DARPA Grand Challenge live action
website
New DARPA Grand Challenge live action
website
04/23/2004 04:26 PMJust launched: a website promising live virtual coverage of this
weekend's
Grand
Challenge race, in which robotic vehicles will race accross the
California desert.
Live Tracking will show relative positions of the
Challenge entrants, and requires a 7 MB download each time you use
your browser to view the tracking. The Status Board
provides a 30 second update of the status of each Challenge team. The
Image Gallery
will contain the most recent images from the Challenge, updated
nightly through March 14.
LinkDARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March
13th
DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March
13th
03/09/2004 12:19 AMMoment of visual zen: DARPA Grand
Challenge illustration
Moment of visual zen: DARPA Grand
Challenge illustration
02/16/2004 01:14 PM
In this month's
Popular Science Magazine, an illustration by
Kenn Brown, who says:
"DARPA is putting
together a race of
autonomous (robotic) vehicles that runs from LA to Las Vegas.
Completely remote, no one at the wheel. They are recruiting people
(these guys are serious robot geeks who build and tinker with this
stuff as a hobby and obsession) to build their own vehicles to
participate in the race. The vehicles range from motorcycles to
HumVees. The point of this story is to illustrate DARPA's interest in
this technology, and that they hope to have autonomous vehicles waging
war by 2015. "
Oh, goodie. I can hardly wait.
LinkDARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching
DARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching
02/01/2005 08:58 PMIf you want a chance at winning the two million dollar prize in the
DARPA Grand Challenge for robotic ground vehicles, you need to file an
application soon.
DARPA Officially Cuts Off Grand
Challengers
DARPA Officially Cuts Off Grand
Challengers
11/04/2003 03:39 PMWe've been following the well-hyped DARPA "Grand Challenge" offroad
autonomous vehicle challenge for a while now, and last week reported
at how surprised DARPA was that
over
100 applications were filed to participate. It seems that DARPA
expected no more than 20 or so - and even told state and local
officials that it would be no more than 20 in order to get their
approval. So, now that they're backed into a corner, they say they're
not
going to let everyone race, which is pissing off many of the
smaller, bootstrapped teams, who are afraid they're the most likely to
get cut. The university/corporate backed teams, however, think it'll
be good that they won't have to fend off the scrappy upstarts. Either
way, this seems like an opportunity for someone. Clearly, there are a
lot of folks willing to try to build such autonomous vehicles. Why
not start a private offering to run similar races? Why not put them
on TV? Make it like "Junkyard Wars" or whatever, and put a little
cash behind the prizes. Assuming there are already 86 contestants who
won't qualify for the DARPA challenge, you could set up 1-on-1 races
and have a weekly show for more than two years just going through
those teams. Even if you had five cars per race, you could easily put
on a season's worth without even bringing back cars for more races.
If it was even remotely successful, there would be no shortage of
entrants. So, forget relying on the government to run this race, put
the damn thing on TV and support it with private money.
PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge
PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge
03/06/2004 02:01 AMWe talk to two of the twenty-five teams designing vehicles for the
DARPA Grand Challenge: a driverless car race across the desert for a
$1 million prize.
Cobalt Horizons Responds to DARPA Grand
ChallengeDesert Field Test of Robotic
Vehicles Offers $2 Million Prize
Cobalt Horizons Responds to DARPA Grand
ChallengeDesert Field Test of Robotic
Vehicles Offers $2 Million Prize
09/25/2004 02:15 AMCobalt Horizons is competing in the Grand Challenge Competition to
send an autonomous ground vehicle through a US Government sponsored
150 mile obstacle course in the Mojave Desert. [PRWEB Sep 25, 2004]
Navigating the Grand Challenge Course
Navigating the Grand Challenge Course
06/11/2004 11:06 AMCMU's Red Team has released
a technical report detailing the mapping, planning, and navigation
system used by their robot, Sandstorm,
in the first DARPA Grand
Challenge. The paper, title High Speed Navigation of
Unrehearsed Terrain: Red Team Technology for Grand Challenge 2004
(PDF format), explains the capabilities and limitations of their
navigation system. Both the hardware
and software are covered. There's also a section about the "lessons
learned" from the experience so far.
Computing need a Grand Challenge
Computing need a Grand Challenge
06/14/2004 08:10 AMThe Register Jun 14 2004 12:56PM GMT
Fortune on the Grand Challenge
Fortune on the Grand Challenge
02/16/2004 01:23 PMGood story in Fortune Small Business about one of the teams
competiting in the Grand Challenge, that Las Vegas to Los Angeles road
race in...
Computing needs a Grand Challenge
Computing needs a Grand Challenge
06/14/2004 08:39 AMSir Tony Hoare lays down the gauntlet
Grand Challenge Map Leaked
Grand Challenge Map Leaked
01/06/2004 11:54 AMBill Carlson tipped us off
to the latest in a series of setbacks for
DARPA's Grand
Challenge competition. The course
map (PDF format) has been leaked to the web. The map was supposed to
be kept secret until hours before the race to insure that the robots
were able navigate autonomously rather than being preprogrammed for
the
specific course. A story in The
Register has more details about the leak.
Are Sensors the key to Grand Challenge?
Are Sensors the key to Grand Challenge?
05/11/2004 12:12 PMDavid
Duke of RobotCorps has
written a new Robotics
Trends article that proposes the idea that the
DARPA Grand Challenge
is less about robots than about sensor technology. David offers an
overview of the types of sensors used by robots entered in this year's
DARPA contest and suggests possible sensor technology that we may see
in
the next contest such as SEEGRID's vision technology.
Getting ready for the Grand Challenge
Getting ready for the Grand Challenge
11/17/2003 11:40 AMA few months ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or
DARPA, announced the Grand Challenge, a Las Vegas to Los Angeles road
race in which a road race in which all the contestants have to be
"autonomous motor vehicles" that can drive and navigate entirely
without any human control. The prize for this robotic Cannonball Run
is a cool million bucks, which apparently attracted so many entrants
that DARPA had to winnow the field to just nineteen qualifiers, though
they may had six more teams to make it an even twenty-five. The race
is still on for March 13th of next year and we'll have full coverage
here on Gizmodo. Read [Via TechDirt]...
More Grand Challenge News
More Grand Challenge News
03/08/2004 11:16 PMAs we approach March 13, lots of stories are being submitted
about the DARPA Grand
Challenge. Since our last update, Nature has
posted a short article on
the race with a small photo gallery of robots and a note about
environmentalists concerned that the event might disturb endangered
desert tortoises. DARPA now has a crew of "tortoise marshals" rounding
up any tortoises that stray into the event area. Doug McGray sent us a
link to his in-depth Wired
article (which includes quite a few photos). Seth Cabe emailed to
say that the Team
LoGHIQ website has been updated with new photos and video of their
robot. Globalstar issued a press release
recently saying they will provide tracking services for the race. Data
will be
collected from each vehicle and relayed via the Globalstar satellite
constellation allowing DARPA to update a map throughout the event.
And,
last for today, the L.A. Daily news recently ran a story
about the Spirit of Vegas
team, who aren't going to finish their robot in time for the race.
Grand Challenge Participants Announced
Grand Challenge Participants Announced
11/14/2003 08:38 PMLast week we reported how DARPA was
stunned that
over
100 teams had decided to enter their
Grand
Challenge of creating a completely autonomous vehicle that could
navigate a 250-mile course which would be revealed only hours before
the race began. Folks at DARPA were under the belief that maybe 10-15
teams would enter the race, and had promised local officials that no
more than 20 would race. It appears they've pushed that upper limit
to 25. They've made the official cuts and
named
nineteen qualifying teams - and said they may name six more out of
a group of twenty-six teams who could qualify (DARPA folks want to
visit with each of those teams to determine if they can join the
race). They also said that, of the 106 applications requested, twenty
teams didn't actually submit the application. Thus, forty-one teams
were rejected outright. Of those that made the cut, you might be
surprised to find a high school team mixed in with teams from CalTech
and Carnegie Mellon. The full list of the nineteen approved teams can
be found
here.
The Grand Flying Robot Challenge
The Grand Flying Robot Challenge
07/23/2004 03:08 PMIf you're sitting around waiting for the X-Prize contestants to blast
into space looking for their millions of dollars, or the autonomous
vehicles of DARPA's grand challenge to figure out how to travel more
than 10 feet or so, there are always other similar "grand challenges"
going on. Apparently going on for four years now, the International
Aerial Robotics Competition was held yesterday to see if teams could
create a
robot that can "fly 3 miles, identify a building and enter
it in less than 15 minutes." Once again, however, no team
successfully finished the challenge. Each year, though, the prize
goes up another $10,000. So, while no one won the $40,000 this year,
next year the prize should be $50,000. Get to work.
Aerial View of Grand Challenge Course
Aerial View of Grand Challenge Course
07/05/2004 04:06 PMTim Holt has created a web app that combines the 2004 DARPA Grand
Challenge waypoint data with aerial images from the Terrasoft database
to create an interactive
aerial map of the Grand Challenge course. You can explore the map or
jump directly to a waypoint of your choice. Images are at the 1
meter/pixel scale, and max off-track distance is
represented to scale.
System X Takes on the Grand Challenge
System X Takes on the Grand Challenge
03/22/2005 03:43 PMIn 2003, Virginia Tech built a supercomputer using Power Mac G5s,
which ranked as the fastest computer system at any academic
institution. From that milestone, Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan and his
team have moved ahead again with System X, a new cluster using 1,100
Xserve G5s. [Mar 21, 2005]
$1 million Grand Challenge map leaked on
Web
$1 million Grand Challenge map leaked on
Web
01/05/2004 06:50 PMDARPA says all going as planned
Grand Challenge Teams in the News
Grand Challenge Teams in the News
03/06/2004 02:03 AMAs the DARPA Grand
Challenge approaches, articles about teams and their robots are
begining to show up in lots of local papers. The Baton Rouge Advocate
has an article
on University of Louisiana at Lafayette's CajunBot.
CajunBot also rated an article
in the Lafayette Advertiser. You can read about the University of
Florida's Team CIMAR
Navigator in a recent newswise
article. The Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette covers the CMU Red
Team's Sandstorm. And the San
Francisco Chronicle recently covered the three teams from the Bay
Area: Team Digital Auto
Drive, Team Overbot, and the Blue
Team.
Nanotech's grand challenge is
sustainable development
Nanotech's grand challenge is
sustainable development
04/12/2005 10:44 AMBig things expected of small science
Carnegie Mellon's Red Team takes on the
Grand Challenge
Carnegie Mellon's Red Team takes on the
Grand Challenge
12/08/2003 11:48 AMArticle in the Carnegie Mellon News about the university's entry into
the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Grand Challenge, a 250
mile Las Vegas to Los Angeles road race in which all the vehicles have
to be able to navigate and complete the race without any human
control. The Red Team's planning to race a robotic Hummer that's been
tricked out with special electronics, mechanics, and software. Read
[Thanks, Josh]...
DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected
DARPA's Grand Challenge Autonomous Road
Race Much More Popular Than Expected
10/30/2003 11:46 PMWe wrote about DARPA's "Grand Challenge" road race when it was
first
announced and then a
few
months ago. In the meantime, it appears that it's really struck a
nerve with a
lot of people. DARPA says they've
received 106
applications to participate, which is a lot more than they
expected. They thought there would be much fewer (under 30)
applicants, and that many wouldn't pass initial scrutiny. The plan
was to announce the entrants by now, but with so many applications,
the review process is taking much longer than expected. The
Challenge, if you haven't been following the story, is to build a
completely autonomous vehicle that can drive on-road and off, which
will have to complete a 250 mile course, all by itself, that will only
be revealed two hours before the race begins.
BlogosphereNews Announces It's Grand
Opening
BlogosphereNews Announces It's Grand
Opening
01/05/2005 03:14 AMBlogosphereNews Launches As A New Site To Provide Synopses of Blog
Developments [PRWEB Jan 5, 2005]
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas For Xbox & PC
Rockstar Games Announces Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas For Xbox & PC
12/19/2004 03:21 PMNews.awn.com - Sat Dec 18, 04:17 am GMT
New Satellite Company GroupSat Inc.
announces grand opening of its New
Kabul, Afghnaistan
New Satellite Company GroupSat Inc.
announces grand opening of its New
Kabul, Afghnaistan
09/27/2004 03:30 AM [PRWEB Sep 27, 2004]
MacMod Announces "The Great Mod
Challenge"
MacMod Announces "The Great Mod
Challenge"
07/27/2004 04:46 PMMacMod.com is pleased to announce the first annual mod competition.
"The Great Mod Challenge" showcases the ingenuity and creativity of
the mac community while building interest and excitement around mac
modding. Please gather up your friends or go it alone to tackle that
mod that has been in the back of your mind for the last few months.
We want you to win the INCREDIBLE ;) prizes we are giving away.
Apple's 2005 Challenge: Surpass The iPod
Apple's 2005 Challenge: Surpass The iPod
12/30/2004 05:16 AMThe company needs to take its knack for making products desirable
in a new direction. By Andreas Pfeiffer, ExtremeTech
2005 Sore Thumbs Awards – Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas awarded Game of the
Year
2005 Sore Thumbs Awards – Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas awarded Game of the
Year
12/29/2004 03:14 AMSummary of the 2005 Sore Thumbs Awards to street January 1, 2005
[PRWEB Dec 29, 2004]
2005 Sore Thumbs Awards – Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas Awarded Best Licensed
Soundtrack
2005 Sore Thumbs Awards – Grand Theft
Auto: San Andreas Awarded Best Licensed
Soundtrack
12/29/2004 03:14 AMSummary of the Sore Thumbs Awards to street January 1, 2005 [PRWEB Dec
29, 2004]
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