- DARPA Grand Challenge
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's challenge of autonomous ground vehicles conducting simulated military supply missions in a mock urban area.
www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
- DARPA Grand Challenge 2005
Follow along with the October 8th robotic race, held in the Mojave Desert, through webcasts and an interactive aerial map. Tells the stories of the DARPA Grand Challenge teams and provides the stats for their autonomous ground vehicles.
www.grandchallenge.org
- AI Motorvators
DARPA Grand Challenge Team trying to keep their system as brutally simple as possible.
www.aimotorvators.com
- Axion Racing
Home of Spirit, the autonomous ground vehicle built on a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Learn about Spirit's technology and team as well as its run in the 2004 and 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.axionracing.com
- DARPA Grand Challenge 2004
Take a look back at the first race set in the Mojave desert. The competition is open to schools and independent teams and is designed to leverage American ingenuity to accelerate the development of autonomous vehicle technologies that can be applied to military requirements.
www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge04
- Desert Buckeyes
Home of the Ohio State University DARPA Grand Challenge team and ION: The Intelligent Off-Road Navigator, an autonomous ground vehicle built on a Polaris Ranger 6x6.
www.ece.osu.edu/ion
- Digital Auto Drive (DAD)
Features information about Digital Auto Drive's DARPA Grand Challenge entry: a Toyota truck equipped with a stereo-vision system.
www.digitalautodrive.com
- GhostRider Robot
Makers of the world first autonomous motorcycle, designed for the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.ghostriderrobot.com
- Golem Group
UCLA's DARPA Grand Challenge team. Find out about the team members' backgrounds and see pictures capturing Golems transformation from an ordinary truck to an unmanned ground robot.
www.golemgroup.com
- Indy Robot Racing Team
Meet Indiana University's DARPA Grand Challenge Team and Indian's Robotic Vehicle (IRV). Follow their daily blog and video updates on IRV's progress.
www.indyrobotracing.com
- Insight Racing
Organization created to develop autonomous vehicle technologies to support military, commercial, and industrial applications. Documents their Chevy Suburban's transformation into an autonomous off-road vehicle.
www.insightracing.org
- MITRE Meteor
Find out about the DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge team and see photos and videos of Meteor, MITRE's autonomous ground vehicle build on a Ford Sport-Trac.
www.mitre.org/tech/meteor
- NPR: Robots to Race Across Mojave Desert
Audio and video reports on the DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1755783.html
- Oregon Wave Runner
Home of Oregon State's DARPA Grand Challenge Team and their little orange autonomous vehicle named Runner.
oregonstate.edu/grandchallenge
- Red Team
Home of Carnegie Mellon University's Sandstorm, the autonomous ground vehicle made from a 1986 model 998 HMMWV.
www.redteamracing.org
- Rover Systems
Designing, building, and programming the C1V1 Rover, an autonomous ground vehicle designed for the DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.roversystems.com
- SciAutonics, LLC
Meet the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous contestant RASCAL, Robust Autonomous Sensor-Controlled All-terrain Land-vehicle.
www.sciautonics.com
- Stanford Racing Team
Find out about Stanley, the Stanford University's drive-by-wire vehicle based on a stock, Diesel-powered Volkswagen Touareg R5 for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.stanfordracing.org
- Team Banzai
Learn about the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge team and Dora, the VW Touareg driven by Mac OS X.
team.gobanzai.com
- Team Caltech
Racing to win the DARPA Grand Challenge.
team.caltech.edu
- Team CIMAR
Responsible for transforming a forgotten 1993 Isuzu Trooper into the NaviGATOR, a state-of-the-art unmanned ground vehicle built to compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
cimar.mae.ufl.edu/grand_challenge
- Team Cornell
Home of Cornell's DARPA Grand Challenge team. Follow Spider, based on a military light strike vehicle, though its development and the desert challenge.
dgc.cornell.edu
- Team CyberRider
Orange County-based nonprofit organization challenging local high school and college students to participate in the landmark DARPA event.
www.cyberrider.org
- Team Mojavaton
Professional DARPA Grand Challenge from Colorado. Find pictures and video of their entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, Mojavaton, an autonomous vehicle based on Nissan Xterra.
www.mojavaton.com
- Team TerraMax
Partnership between Oshkosh Truck Corporation and Ohio State University to develop a robotic truck to compete in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.oshkoshtruck.com/defense/technology~robotic_vehicle.cfm
- TerraMax
Take a 360 degree tour of T-Max, a massive six-wheel autonomous ground vehicle created for the DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.terramax.com
- The Great Robot Race
PBS's NOVA recaps the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, where driverless vehicles competed in a 130-mile race across the Mojave Desert
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/darpa
- Virginia Tech's DARPA Grand Challenge Team
Follows the team as they convert a Club Car XRT 1500 into an unmanned ground vehicle for the Grand Challenge.
www.me.vt.edu/grandchallenge
- Wikipedia: DARPA Grand Challenge
Features a summary of the government-sponsored competition, the DARPA Grand Challenge's rules, and links to autonomous vehicle development teams that competed in the desert race.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
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