- 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
- 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
- Red Team
Home of Carnegie Mellon University's Sandstorm, the autonomous ground vehicle made from a 1986 model 998 HMMWV.
www.redteamracing.org
- 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
- GhostRider Robot
Makers of the world first autonomous motorcycle, designed for the 2004 DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.ghostriderrobot.com
- 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
- Team Caltech
Racing to win the DARPA Grand Challenge.
team.caltech.edu
- 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
- SciAutonics, LLC
Meet the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous contestant RASCAL, Robust Autonomous Sensor-Controlled All-terrain Land-vehicle.
www.sciautonics.com
- 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
- AI Motorvators
DARPA Grand Challenge Team trying to keep their system as brutally simple as possible.
www.aimotorvators.com
- Rover Systems
Designing, building, and programming the C1V1 Rover, an autonomous ground vehicle designed for the DARPA Grand Challenge.
www.roversystems.com
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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