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Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Chairboy on March 13, 2004, 09:34:55 AM

I got up early this morning to track progress of the DARPA Grand Challenge, a robotic desert race across 150 miles.

http://www.grandchallenge.org/statusboard/

Two teams are already 7 miles along, but haven't made it past that.  I sure wish there was live streaming video I could watch!  I'm very curious abotu what has stopped them or if it's a reporting error.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Chairboy on March 13, 2004, 09:59:21 AM

Team # Name Miles Along Course Status Update Time
22 Red Team 7 Disabled 07:57:52
21 SciAutonics II 8 Disabled 07:57:52
5 Team Caltech 1 Running 07:57:53
7 Team DAD 6 Running 07:57:53
25 Virginia Tech 0 Disabled 07:57:52
23 Axion Racing 0 Disabled 07:38:10
2 Team CajunBot 0 Disabled 07:57:53
13 Team ENSCO 0 Running 07:57:54
4 CIMAR 0 Awaiting Start  
10 Palos Verdes RoadWarriors 0 Awaiting Start  
17 SciAutonics 0 Awaiting Start  
20 Team TerraMax 0 Awaiting Start  
15 Team TerraHawk 0 Withdrawn  
9 The Golem Group 0 Awaiting Start  
16 The Blue Team 0 Awaiting Start

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: boxboy28 on March 13, 2004, 12:00:18 PM

sounds like watching ladies golf on TV

Title: Re: The race is underway!
Post by: rpm on March 14, 2004, 12:29:53 AM

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Originally posted by Chairboy
I sure wish there was live streaming video I could watch!

I heard there's live coverage on The Paint Drying Channel.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Sandman on March 14, 2004, 12:38:34 AM

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Originally posted by boxboy28
sounds like watching ladies golf on TV

Oh Mrs. Crane, you're a little monkey woman. Yeah, you're lean, mean, and I bet you're not too far in between are ya. How'd you like to wrap your spikes around my...




Bark like a dog.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Chairboy on March 14, 2004, 12:39:35 AM

I found streaming video, and it was cool.  Some of the robots (and we're talking fully autonomous cars, trucks, and ATVs) sprinted out of the starting gate and slammed into walls, some of them went a couple miles then flipped, another one based on a Humvee went off course and broke an axle, and so on.

My favorite team (the robot motorcycle) failed before it even launched, but the TerraMax team impressed me.  Their vehicle was a multi thousand pound all terrain vehicle that barreled out of the starting gate and headed off into the desert, narrowly avoiding the barriers and obstacles.  

They all failed this year, but next time it might be different.

I'm not sure why you guys think this is boring, these are totally autonomous.  They aren't big R/C cars, they actually have to have enough smarts to coordinate radar, lidar, vison interpretation, sonar, etc.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: FUNKED1 on March 14, 2004, 12:48:03 AM

This stuff is awesome.  Autonomous robots rule.  Ever see the robot soccer world cup?

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Capt. Pork on March 14, 2004, 12:49:23 AM

Chairboy, are you an engineer by any chance?

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: TBolt A-10 on March 14, 2004, 03:32:36 AM

It's unfortunate that each team failed so quickly.  The best was...what...7 of 150 miles or something like that?  :( :lol

O well.  Is it true that 1st prize would've been a million dollar contract?

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: rpm on March 14, 2004, 06:20:45 AM

(http://www.niftyness.com/askskippy/skippy-robot.gif)
I heard the giant chicken eating robot was doing well before the unfortunate turtle pee incident.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Chairboy on March 14, 2004, 11:11:37 AM

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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
Chairboy, are you an engineer by any chance?

As a matter of fact...  yes.  Why?

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Capt. Pork on March 14, 2004, 11:23:49 AM

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Originally posted by Chairboy
As a matter of fact...  yes.  Why?

Just curious... What kind?

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: Chairboy on March 14, 2004, 11:55:16 AM

Software Quality Assurance Engineer.  Before switching to management, at least.  I'm still an engineer at heart.

Title: The race is underway!
Post by: AcId on March 14, 2004, 09:12:48 PM

usually engineer types find this kinda stuff interesting.

Fibre channel engineer :D