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DARPA Grand Challenge Padu 10-04-2005
Posted by John Nagle on October 10, 2005, 10:36 pm
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newtype wrote:
> Did DARPA say they were going to hold another event for next year?

The director of DARPA, Dr. Tony Tether, has announced that
there will NOT be another Grand Challenge next year. At
least not one for autonomous ground vehicles.

It's over. Now to commercialize the technology.

                                John Nagle
                                Team Overbot.

Posted by newtype on October 11, 2005, 2:15 am
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@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:

> newtype wrote:
>> Did DARPA say they were going to hold another event for next year?
>
> The director of DARPA, Dr. Tony Tether, has announced that
> there will NOT be another Grand Challenge next year. At
> least not one for autonomous ground vehicles.
>
> It's over. Now to commercialize the technology.
>
> John Nagle
> Team Overbot.


humm, What happend last year? oh yeah, what about the Civilian Grand
Challenge? Wasn't it going to be called the International Robotic Race
Federation, IRRF? At one time I suggested to race in Baja.
oh well.



Posted by dan michaels on October 11, 2005, 11:08 am
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John Nagle wrote:
> newtype wrote:
> > Did DARPA say they were going to hold another event for next year?
>
> The director of DARPA, Dr. Tony Tether, has announced that
> there will NOT be another Grand Challenge next year. At
> least not one for autonomous ground vehicles.
>
> It's over. Now to commercialize the technology.
>
>                                 John Nagle
>                                 Team Overbot.


How did Team Overbot fare in the race?


- dan michaels
www.oricomtech.com
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Posted by joecoin on October 10, 2005, 8:56 pm
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> "Ben" wrote
>>
>> I don't think they're blaming that for not winning. The second
>> excerpt points out that they had some sort of other problem.
>>
>> Red Team Too also suffered some unknown technical glitch which put
>> them out of first place.
>>
>> All sorts of things happened. Cajunbot's servo motor burned out
>> while it was "paused" waiting for congestion to clear.
>>
>> Those are the breaks.
>>
>
> I was there and it was really windy, but that was true for everybody.
> Terramax left the gate a few hours after the first team. They had to
> be paused for at least 15 minutes because they were removing Alice
> (caltech if I'm not mistaken) from the road (quite an entertaining
> crash, very close to all us). The first teams could also blame light
> conditions as the sun was not giving full light at dusk.
>
>>> I saw
>>>video of TerraMax during the trials at the speedway, it took a long
>>>time to get through one gate, backing up a several times before
>>>finallly "deciding" to go through.
>>
>> Yeah - I got bored watching it, so I didn't see how many times they
>> had to back up.
>>
>
> I don't know if at that point it was already "glitchy", but it took
> forever for terramax to cross the railroad bridge close Buffalo Bill.
> It was stop and go for at least 10 minutes.
>
> Real pitty was team ENSCO... they got a flat tire at about 60 and
> something miles... they were looking very good.
>
>
> Not trying to take the shine off the winners, but I found that this
> year it was much easier than last year. Less miles and the only
> challenging part was beer bottle pass, on the last 7 miles of
> competition. All that said, teams really improved from last year, as
> there was no spectacles on the starting chute. Even the last team did
> close to 7 miles. (I think only one team failed to start)
>
>
>
> Overall, it was very fun to be there. Kudos for grayteam team that
> finished very close to the big dogs.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Padu
>
>


Padu,

I'll bet you're glad you went!

Could you describe the crash and any other interesting things you saw?

Joe

Posted by Padu on October 11, 2005, 2:22 pm
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>
> Padu,
>
> I'll bet you're glad you went!
>
> Could you describe the crash and any other interesting things you saw?
>
> Joe


Sure! A few things that are still fresh in my mind.

- The organization was very good, at least from my point of view. The only
thing I didn't know was the annoying announcer. I believe he must've been
thinking he was narrating a NASCAR race... and his jokes were not really
funny.
- I was expecting to see some of the smaller teams to crash in the starting
chute (I know, evil me. but we all have that old primal roman arena
instinct, don't we?) but neither did... I guess the technical level really
rose from last year.
- The sun rising and the headlights of stanley, highlander and sandstorm at
the starting chute was really beautifull
- It was very nice that some of the teams that didn't make at the NQE was
also there and exposing their cars to the public. Special thanks to team
Banzai and Ghostrider. They gave very good demonstrations of their
technologies.
- One of the highlights of the day was really Alice running on the berm. The
bots left the starting chute going north Las Vegas bound, spend some time on
the dry lake then return to another pass close to the stands (very well
thought for entertaining purposes). While we were watching other teams being
released from the starting chute, suddenly everybody was "woooow". Then I
looked at the berm and there it was alice. She came close to those big
concrete islands, run over it and was climbing the berm when I think the
shadow vehicle hit the e-stop. Otherwise I believe it would succesfully
climb the berm, tear the fence apart and just continue forward towards the
crowd.... it looked like a tractor.
- Terramax was one of the most waited bots to be launched from the starting
chute.
- The healthy competition between stanford and cmu. The cheering when the
speaker announced that stanford had passed highlander, and more cheering
when stanley appeared on the live broadcast of beer bottle pass.
- The three first bots coming from the beer bottle pass and crossing the
finish line. The stands completely full of people, all cheering and
screaming for the robots.
- The 3-D live tracking of the bots were really great. My only complain is
that it should be in a place where a greater number of people could be
watching it constantly.

Well, this is what I could remember. I'm sure there is much more to it. And
as the speaker told at least 18 times: one more page on the history books
were being written right before our eyes...

Cheers

Padu



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