Sunday, October 9th, 2005
DARPA’s Grand Challenge (a race between vehicles that are able to navigate an off-road course without human intervention) started yesterday. It looks like they will soon be announcing the winner because only 1 of the 23 teams is still running with no chance of catching up to the very tight pack of 4 teams that have completed the 132 mile race in less than 10.5 hours.
It’s looking like the final placing will be:
- 9h 55m: Stanford Racing Team’s Stanley, a Volkswagen Touareg with GPS, IMU, laser, radar, vision, and wheel speed sensors.
- 9h 59m: CMU Red Team’s Sandstorm, a 1986 HMMWV with vision, radar, laser, and GPS sensors.
- 10h 4m: CMU Red Team’s H1ghlander, a 1999 H1 Hummer with INS, GPS, and laser sensors.
- 10h 17m: Gray Team’s GrayBot, a 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid with cameras, laser, and GPS sensors.
It is amazing how close the 4 teams that finished were. Sandstorm only lost by 4 minutes!
