An autonomous LR3 for DARPA Urban Challenge!
Postitatud: L Sept 15, 2007 15:19
A self piloted Land Rover LR3 was recently entered in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge by a team of MIT students and professors. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an organization of the US Department of Defense and the Urban Challenge was created to help spur development of self driven ground vehicle technology which could help save lives on the battlefield and assist in future military operations. Laser range scanners, video cameras and advanced radar systems pilot the LR3 autonomously, which is to say without a human at the wheel.
Initial trials were successful and it was announced last week that Team MITs LR3 was selected for the Urban Challenge semifinals which are scheduled for late October at the US urban military training facility in Victorville, California. The semifinals will require vehicles to operate autonomously through mock urban environments as well as simulated military exercises. In a press release Dr. Tony Tether, director of DARPA noted, "The vehicles must perform as well as someone with a California Driver's License."
The final DAPRA Urban Challenge competition is scheduled for November 3 and the top three vehicles will be awarded $2 million, $1 million and $500,000. The final course will require entrants to complete the challenge within six-hours on a similar course, but this time vehicles will need to operate in conjunction with another.
Below is a video of the MIT Urban Challenge Team LR3 conducting preliminary tests back in July.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6bk7L4400&eurl=
Allikas:
http://rovering.squarespace.com/journal ... lenge.html
Initial trials were successful and it was announced last week that Team MITs LR3 was selected for the Urban Challenge semifinals which are scheduled for late October at the US urban military training facility in Victorville, California. The semifinals will require vehicles to operate autonomously through mock urban environments as well as simulated military exercises. In a press release Dr. Tony Tether, director of DARPA noted, "The vehicles must perform as well as someone with a California Driver's License."
The final DAPRA Urban Challenge competition is scheduled for November 3 and the top three vehicles will be awarded $2 million, $1 million and $500,000. The final course will require entrants to complete the challenge within six-hours on a similar course, but this time vehicles will need to operate in conjunction with another.
Below is a video of the MIT Urban Challenge Team LR3 conducting preliminary tests back in July.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV6bk7L4400&eurl=
Allikas:
http://rovering.squarespace.com/journal ... lenge.html