Fifteen Teams Selected for DARPA Grand Challenge 199
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."
Weird fact (Score:-1, Informative)
Streaming Broadcast over the Internet (Score:5, Informative)
For all those of us who don't have access to the DARPA channel, we can stream the telecast live from here [cmu.edu].
These are the same people who appeared in this slashdot story [slashdot.org] and seems to be different from the "live webcast" mentioned in the story which only appears to have a tracking feature.
Departure. (Score:5, Informative)
CNN Story About The Race (Score:4, Informative)
Re:The race starts at 6:30 am Saturday, (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet (Score:5, Informative)
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 [grandchallenge.org] are not exactly the same as those from the official website [grandchallenge.org] (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
This is the list of all qualified teams (from the new
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
Re:waste of time? (Score:3, Informative)
For the rest of the world... (Score:5, Informative)
Assuming that "6.30 am" means local time in Barstow, California, that would be 6.30 PST -0800, or 14.30 GMT.
Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet (Score:5, Informative)
Hmm, I don't know how you got that information, but their status page indicates that no-one has started, as of yet (5:10am in Barstow). The race is supposed to start at 6:30am, so that would make sense.
Maybe they had some incorrect data initially. Anyways, this slightly 'lighter' page [grandchallenge.org] shows the status.
btw, P4-2GHz also at 100% / 125MB RAM
Course length set at 142 miles (Score:4, Informative)
THIS JUST STARTED (Score:3, Informative)
Info [grandchallenge.org]
Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet (Score:2, Informative)
Meanwhile the status board shows the Red Team and SciAutonics II neck on neck at 7 miles along the course each. Seems Team Caltech isn't doing too well , since they're still stuck on 1 mile from the start. Would love to know the story behind those distances....
peter
Re:Darn CMU robotics people (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Palos Verdes Road Warriors disabled at start (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Streaming Broadcast over the Internet (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Palos Verdes Road Warriors disabled at start (Score:4, Informative)
Other unoffical updates:
Sandstorm is out with a blown motor.
Sci II is supposedly still running.
Caltech is still running technically but is going nowhere fast. Its not stuck or anything tho.
Dad is running.
#25 has a stuck brake.
#23 has GPS problems but they may restart.
Navigator is stuck real bad in a fence. they are cutting it out.
#15 lost it hydralic pump
Cajunbot hit a obstacle right out of the gate.
Ensco hauled ass out of the gate, made its first turn OK but then rolled on the next.
Re:What's happening with team DAD? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:cyberrider == conscientious objector (Score:1, Informative)
Cyberrider was the desert racer sand rail:
www.cyberrider.org
Re:Withdrawn (Score:2, Informative)
Re:WTF: application/x-esm (Score:2, Informative)
A friend of mine works on ESM. It was developed at CMU and has been used for many recent lectures on campus.
Tracking for Linux (Score:3, Informative)
It's over. (Score:3, Informative)
not a waste of time at all (Score:4, Informative)
To get a full sized vehicle working at battlefield speeds with battlefield obstacles is a monumental challenge and almost certainly guaranteed to fail on the first try. Autonomous robotics is still a very young field, and the research published out there is generally some pretty rudimentary stuff done in a lab. Translating that stuff into a big complicated machine in a big complicated environment is a hell of a task and probably demonstrates some substantial holes in the current tech that weren't apparent from the confines of the lab.
This DARPA challenge does two excellent things for the field: Gives it a real goal and gives it a real deadline. Alot of research doesn't have a deadline and so researchers spend much of their time spinning their wheels (heh) on some of what i would consider, less important issues. This challenge gives a genuine goal to accomplish in a certain amount of time.
I definiately want to see the post-mortem on each team to see where they failed. In 2 more years, with this failure experience gained, perhaps a quarter of the teams will succeed or at least get further down the course.
Sandstorm failure reports (Score:3, Informative)
From the wires of the Associated Press: [sfgate.com]