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Stanford wins DARPA Grand Challenge - Carnegie Mellon takes 2nd & 3rd
7 hours 32 minutes for Stanford.
The CMU teams came in within 20 minutes or so after that. I was disappointed with the "webcast" that there was supposed to be. (www.grandchallenge.org) There were 2 audio updates and the real-time updates of standings had serious problems. At one point, ALL of the listed standings were revised to show fewer miles than they had a half-hou before that. And if you look at it now, the clock is still running on the 3 teams that finished. At least 1 team that was shown as eliminated at 81 miles, now shows they made it 97 miles. 3 teams are still making progress - or so it says. All the rest failed to make it. Only 1 team failed to make it out of the gate. |
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Ben wrote:
7 hours 32 minutes for Stanford. The CMU teams came in within 20 minutes or so after that. The PDF press release at http://www.grandchallenge.org/downloads/GC05%20Winner.pdf includes the following: quote The first four finishers entered the history books as being the first ground vehicle robots to travel a great distance at relatively high speed within a specified time frame. Stanley's average speed over the 131.6-mile desert course was 19.1 mph. Sandstorm averaged 18.6 mph, H1ghlander 18.2 mph, and KAT-5 17.5 mph. /quote Couldn't follow the webcast; no cell service over most of the Long Beach-Catalina course, and the sailboat I was on didn't have satellite phone or Dish TV. Congrats Stanford, CMU, Gray Team, and Terramax. /dps |
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The Independent noted:
"One popular finisher was a converted Ford Escape with a hybrid petrol-electric engine. It had been built by students from the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, who qualified for the race despite the upheavals of Hurricane Katrina, which destroyed many of their homes. Their vehicle came in fourth" http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article318320.ece /dps |
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My personal favorite, Oregon WAVE Runner, didn't make it out of NQE.
They've blogged some of the lessons learned at http://oregonstate.edu/grandchallenge/drupal/node/55 /dps |
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"snidely" :
Ben wrote: 7 hours 32 minutes for Stanford. The CMU teams came in within 20 minutes or so after that. The PDF press release at http://www.grandchallenge.org/downloads/GC05%20Winner.pdf includes the following: quote The first four finishers entered the history books as being the first ground vehicle robots to travel a great distance at relatively high speed within a specified time frame. Stanley's average speed over the 131.6-mile desert course was 19.1 mph. Sandstorm averaged 18.6 mph, H1ghlander 18.2 mph, and KAT-5 17.5 mph. /quote Couldn't follow the webcast; no cell service over most of the Long Beach-Catalina course, and the sailboat I was on didn't have satellite phone or Dish TV. Congrats Stanford, CMU, Gray Team, and Terramax. Since the main page is all flash - I can view a thing if I log on. However thanks to the above URL Ifound I can go to http://www.grandchallenge.org/downloads/ And the files are all there!!! Happy Days all. Earl Colby Pottinger -- I make public email sent to me! Hydrogen Peroxide Rockets, OpenBeos, SerialTransfer 3.0, RAMDISK, BoatBuilding, DIY TabletPC. What happened to the time? http://webhome.idirect.com/~earlcp |
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