Paul Stanway Jr
07-20-2005, 08:07 PM
Robot Hummer hits milepost in driverless challenge
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Whizzing around a 1.5-mile racetrack in a military-style Hummer for seven hours may not be hard, but try it without a driver.
Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm--an artificially intelligent, robotic car with drive-by-wire modifications, GPS (Global Positioning System) and radar sensors, and remote control emergency safeguards--drove 200 miles, or 131 laps, autonomously last week. That's a milestone for the university's Red Team in the race to out-drive 39 other robotic vehicles and win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a desert race with a $2 million prize sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the U.S Department of Defense.
Read more at http://news.com.com/Robot+Hummer+hits+milepost+in+driverless+challenge/2100-7337_3-5787038.html?part=rss&tag=5787038&subj=news
By Stefanie Olsen
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Whizzing around a 1.5-mile racetrack in a military-style Hummer for seven hours may not be hard, but try it without a driver.
Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm--an artificially intelligent, robotic car with drive-by-wire modifications, GPS (Global Positioning System) and radar sensors, and remote control emergency safeguards--drove 200 miles, or 131 laps, autonomously last week. That's a milestone for the university's Red Team in the race to out-drive 39 other robotic vehicles and win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, a desert race with a $2 million prize sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research arm of the U.S Department of Defense.
Read more at http://news.com.com/Robot+Hummer+hits+milepost+in+driverless+challenge/2100-7337_3-5787038.html?part=rss&tag=5787038&subj=news