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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Unveiling our algorithm, trade-offs and implementation

It is still a work in progress for some parts, but we are going to unveil the algorithm driving our vehicle: Pegasus Bridge 1, as we go along. We are still gathering data and evaluating them against different algorithms. We expect to talk about the implementation as well as the general concepts from GPS waypoint following, road following, situational awareness and learning rules. We hope to be able to do this in a timely manner, but as we are under-manned, between reporting on the algorithm and making it better we will always go for the latter. The reporting will take place here.

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.