Part 4 Video submission completed.

We sent our video to DARPA yesterday. Next stop San Antonio at the Southwest Research Institute.

Visit of the Southwest Research Institute and our Strategy

As usual the visit at Southwest Research Institute went very smoothly. We are working on our video for the part 4 of the application. Because our approach is truely innovative and we expect no other team to go our route, we are unveiling our algorithm/software strategy in several excerpts here as we go along.

Site visit will take place at Southwest Research Institute

Since we liked it so much last year, we have decided to come back to SouthWest Research Institute for the DARPA site visit. Photos of the site can be found here.

We are in the Track B pool of teams

We're in.

Application time

Our application was sent and received by DARPA. They will decide whether or not we are selected for Track B on October 18th.

A New Race

We have decided to enter DARPA's Urban Grand Challenge race (in french)

On a totally unrelated note: the location of the historical Pegasus Bridge is here.

Stanford Racing Team is the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge

Outstanding, three contestants arrived within 10 minutes of each other!

National Qualification Event

There are interesting videos from the NQE before selection is made on Thursday. They can be found on the CarTV site. In this video, Stanford provides insight in the vision system of their entry. Stanford has their own stock of videos.

DARPA Grand Challenge NQE underway.

The DARPA Grand Challenge National Qualification Event has taken place for the past several days, more information can be found on this brochure. A good blog on the event can be found here. Meanwhile, since we have been eliminated for this year's event, we are playing with Google Maps technology and are evaluating how it can be applied to our display of engineering data. John Wiseman did a great job of displaying last year's DARPA race through Google Maps. We just used it to display places on the Paris map for the "Nuit Blanche" event. We feel it has a good potential when applied to the data we are making freely available from our test runs.

Result of DARPA selection to NQE

On Monday, June 6th, DARPA announced a list of teams that would participate to the NQE (National Qualifying Event.) Unfortunately, we are currently not on that list.