DARPA Wants BigDog for the Army

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DARPA Grand Challenge Teams Submit
Videos to DARPA

DARPA Grand Challenge Teams Submit
Videos to DARPA 03/14/2005 05:02 PM
Slashdot Mar 13 2005 11:31AM GMT

U.S. Army Selects Verity for its Army
Knowledge Online Portal

U.S. Army Selects Verity for its Army
Knowledge Online Portal 03/15/2003 01:23 PM

U.S. Army Deploys Autonomy for Army
Knowledge Online Portal

U.S. Army Deploys Autonomy for Army
Knowledge Online Portal 06/21/2004 05:56 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Mon Jun 21, 08:46 am GMT

CMU Red Team Gets More DARPA GC Help

CMU Red Team Gets More DARPA GC Help 03/14/2005 06:03 PM
According to a Duke University press release, Duke will be offering assistance to the CMU Red Team. They plan to equip both CMU robots with their "Duke Radar Object Identification Device" (DROID). The radar sensors will use a unique approach by trying to identify only above ground objects while avoiding the terrain itself. They hope this will reduce clutter in the resulting data. Duke is the latest in a long list of organizations donating time, equipment, and money toward a CMU win in the DARPA Grand Challenge.

DARPA Contest Goes Into Orbit

DARPA Contest Goes Into Orbit 04/07/2005 05:24 AM
Sci-Tech Today Apr 7 2005 9:25AM GMT

DARPA Robotwars++ worth $1,000,000

DARPA Robotwars++ worth $1,000,000 11/10/2003 11:12 PM
The DARPA said last Thursday that 86 teams have submitted technical papers describing their proposed robotic cars that can drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on an off-road course in 10 hours, with a top prize of $1,000,000

Still More on the DARPA Grand Challenge

Still More on the DARPA Grand Challenge 02/15/2004 07:43 PM

Brief: HP awarded DARPA contract

Brief: HP awarded DARPA contract 04/04/2005 07:10 PM
Hewlett-Packard said it was been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to improve network performance in combat situations.

Darpa Wants Replacement Arms by 2009

Darpa Wants Replacement Arms by 2009 04/11/2005 11:02 AM

There are plenty of reasons to hate our government, from low quality cheese handouts to an embarrassing lack of prisoner-fueled gladiatorial events, but at least they have no problem telling scientists to stop sucking the creme filling from grants and start building robot arms. Darpa, the funds-holding financier of many military project, has put out a challenge to modern prostheticists to build a fake arm with, "enough finesse to pick up a raisin or to write in longhand. It needs to be sensitive enough for the wearer to demonstration to do day-to-day tasks in the dark. And the limb will have to be strong enough to lift 60 pounds at a time."

REPLACEMENT ARM, GOOD AS NEW [DefenseTech]

DARPA figures out how to run a $2m robot
race

DARPA figures out how to run a $2m robot
race 08/02/2004 09:07 PM
Grand Improvement with revised rules

DARPA chisels little guy out of $1
million race

DARPA chisels little guy out of $1
million race 11/16/2003 01:46 PM
Tethered to Pentagon pork

DARPA Grand Challenge PR Problems

DARPA Grand Challenge PR Problems 10/30/2003 11:57 PM
The 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.

Another DARPA-Sponsored Robotics
Competition

Another DARPA-Sponsored Robotics
Competition 01/04/2004 05:49 PM

DARPA Robot Contest Update

DARPA Robot Contest Update 01/02/2004 01:09 PM

DARPA Awards FALCON HCV Contracts

DARPA Awards FALCON HCV Contracts 01/23/2004 04:14 PM
According to a DefenseLINK article, DARPA has awarded contracts for phase one of the FALCON hypersonic cruise vehicle (HCV) development program. That's FALCON as in Force Application and Launch from the Continental United States. The FALCON will be an autonomous robot plane that can take off from a conventional runway in the US and strike targets up to 9,000 miles away with its 12,000 lbs weapon payload in 2 hours or less traveling at speeds of Mach 6 or higher. Eventually, a single, reusable robot plane will do the whole job. But because DARPA anticipates the need to blow up a few things before the final "Version 2" vehicle is available, their plan (PDF format) calls for developing a "Version 1" FALCON that's made in two parts: a rocket powered small launch vehicle (SLV) that will accelerate a Common Aero Vehicle (CAV) into low Earth orbit (LEO). The autonomous CAV will then glide towards the target at hypersonic speeds.

DARPA GC Technical Papers Released

DARPA GC Technical Papers Released 05/14/2004 12:21 PM
Tim Holt emailed yesterday saying, Final team technical papers on DARPA Grand Challenge 2004 posted today. Bet there's some good reading in there! There are 25 DARPA Grand Challenge team technical papers, all in PDF format. These papers contain photos, diagrams, and detailed technical specifications for each of the Grand Challenge robots. Have fun.

Darpa Offers No Food for Thought

Darpa Offers No Food for Thought 02/17/2004 05:53 AM
Pentagon scientists are trying to find a way for GIs to live without food for up to five days. The effort is part of larger initiative to develop soldiers who are immune to everyday human concerns. By Noah Shachtman.

DARPA seeks self-repairing computer

DARPA seeks self-repairing computer 09/10/2004 07:10 AM
Big News Network Sep 10 2004 11:37AM GMT

DARPA Grand Challenge Maps Revealed

DARPA Grand Challenge Maps Revealed 01/05/2004 06:49 PM
There'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.

DARPA quells robot road rage

DARPA quells robot road rage 12/31/2003 06:13 PM
Grand Challenge back on track

DARPA GC Team GPLs Telemetry Data

DARPA GC Team GPLs Telemetry Data 04/03/2005 05:38 PM
Igor Carron of the DARPA Grand Challenge Pegasus Team writes, "we are committing ourselves to provide the rest of the robotics community some of the data we gather during our trial runs. We expect these trial runs to be more sophisticated as we go along. Probably one of the unusual decision we have made for this vehicle is to not have range sensors such as laser SICK, ultrasound or radar. Our sensor module features an IMU with information on acceleration (3-axis), rotation information (3-axis), heading (3-axis), a GPS and one or several cameras (.jpg or .bmp taken at 10-20 Hz). Because we do not believe the issue is about how to gather data but to make sense of them, these data are provided free of charge and are licensed under the GNU GPL."

Surge in DARPA GC Filings as Deadline
Nears

Surge in DARPA GC Filings as Deadline
Nears 02/01/2005 10:04 PM
A DARPA Press release (PDF format) says there has been a surge in team applications for the DARPA Grand Challenge in recent weeks. The final deadline for filing an application to participate is approaching on February 11. Over 125 applications have been filed by teams promising to field autonomous robots capable of the 142 mile, 10 hour desert trek. 34 teams from the previous Grand Challenge are returning but three times that number of new teams have joined, representing 30 states and 3 foreign countries.

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules 08/03/2004 08:46 AM
DARPA 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 Officially Cuts Off Grand
Challengers

DARPA Officially Cuts Off Grand
Challengers 11/04/2003 03:39 PM
We'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.

DARPA Announces Grand Challenge 2005

DARPA Announces Grand Challenge 2005 06/08/2004 03:16 PM

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Announced

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Announced 06/08/2004 04:55 PM
DARPA 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 Runs Robo-Racers Off Road

Darpa Runs Robo-Racers Off Road 11/04/2003 06:25 AM
About 100 teams accepted the Pentagon's challenge to build robots that can race from Los Angeles to Las Vegas without human help. But the Pentgon goofed. It invited too many and may ax many entrants. By Noah Shachtman.

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
Announced

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Rules
Announced 08/02/2004 08:53 PM

DARPA GC Team GPLs Drive-by-Wire Code

DARPA GC Team GPLs Drive-by-Wire Code 06/05/2005 11:13 PM
In early April, Pegasus Team GPLed their DARPA Grand Challenge telemetry data. Now they've gone a step further and released a version of their Python drive-by-wire software under the GNU GPL. It's very interesting to see code being used on one of the DARPA entries. This code is a simplified, early version used during testing to control the Pegasus robot remotely from a Laptop by using keyboard commands to accelerate, brake, and turn. Keep in mind the released code is intended as an example only. So, before you try running it as-is on your 1 ton, 300 HP DARPA robot, read their dislaimer: "if you do not know what you are doing do not use this program on a motorized vehicle or any machinery for that matter. Even if you know what you are doing, we absolutely cannot be held responsible for your use of this program under ANY circumstances."

Moment 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. Link

PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge

PC-Powered Buggy, Motorcycle Compete In
DARPA Challenge 03/06/2004 02:01 AM
We 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.

New DARPA Grand Challenge live action
website

New DARPA Grand Challenge live action
website 04/23/2004 04:26 PM
Just 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.

Link

DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March
13th

DARPA Grand Challenge Kicks Off March
13th 03/09/2004 12:19 AM

Crash test dummies get date for DARPA
Robot Run II

Crash test dummies get date for DARPA
Robot Run II 06/09/2004 08:44 PM
$2m prize inside

DARPA doubles cash payout for second
robot race

DARPA doubles cash payout for second
robot race 05/17/2004 03:03 PM
Grander Challenge

DARPA: Could Segways replace soldiers as
hired killers?

DARPA: Could Segways replace soldiers as
hired killers? 12/09/2003 09:42 AM
robotic killer Segways .. Read article .. The Register

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NASA/DARPA "Robonaut" and Boba Fett --
separated at birth?

NASA/DARPA "Robonaut" and Boba Fett --
separated at birth? 05/28/2004 03:33 PM
BoingBoing reader Noah says,

DARPA, the folks behind the creepy eye in the pyramid Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness logo, and the short-lived terrorism futures market (FutureMAP), have been at work on a robot for NASA that looks suspiciously like Boba Fett from Star Wars! Could it be an Episode 3 tie-in?

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DARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching

DARPA Grand Challenge Application
Deadline Rapidly Approaching 02/01/2005 08:58 PM
If 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.

DIY 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 PM
Los Angeles based AI Motorvators team in the midst of 2 million dollar high-tech national competition. MIT, Princeton teams eliminated [PRWEB Jun 9, 2005]
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