hold pattern

FYI, We are not reporting much as we are preparing for the site visit and trying to make some innovative use of light bulbs :-)
[update June 21: they will be on the rooftop]

Site visit

Our site visit will take place on the afternoon of June 27th at the the Southwest Research Institute. As for the technical report, I am going to hold onto it for a little while since we are still investigating some of the final algorithms/hardware to be implemented for the site visit. I thought we would be done by then but day-jobs and other considerations are making this a little optimistic.

We have a site visit.

See y'all you in San Antonio. The 53 teams remaining are listed here.

Site visit announcement tomorrow

We just received this:

An email with the site visit announcement and press release will be emailed on Friday, May 11 at 1100 AM ET.

DARPA Urban Challenge

on a different note, we were featured on robots.net

Site visit course RDNF and our algorithm presentation

The folks at Southwest Research Institute have done a great job at defining the course for the site visit. CP#6 is where the obstacle (yellow car lies). With respect to unveiling our algorithm, we are in the middle of devising a lot of things (a lot of us have finals) for the time being but we have given an outline on the basics needed to a implement a GPS waypoint following vehicle by pointing out to the effort of a vehicle prepared by a large University next door (disclaimer: we have no connection what so ever with this effort) which eventually did not enter the Grand Challenge. Most entries on the subject will be at http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.com/search/label/darpa%20urban%20challenge
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