DARPA Grand Challenge

By Noah Shachtman Mass High Tech uncovers this video of the BigDog going through exercises at Ft. Benning, Georgia. It comes on the heels of the robo-beast's longest walk yet -- a 12.8 mile hike, following a series of GPS waypoints. Soldiers at Ft. Benning seemed intrigued by the idea of a mechanical pack mule tha...

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 Australia - Oct 29, 2008 It'll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it'll have to ...

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By Jo It’ll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it’ll have to respond to speech and gesture commands—at which point you imagine a soldier ...

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By Kit Eaton It'll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it'll have to respond to speech and gesture commands—at which point you imagine a soldier commanding it to "sit!" and giggle slightly. But only sligh...

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It’ll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it’ll have to respond to speech and gesture commands—at which point you imagine a soldier ...

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It’ll have to cope with stairs, water hazards, desert levels of heat and arctic levels of snow and ice, navigate through GPS waypoints, and it’ll have to respond to speech and gesture commands—at which point you imagine a soldier ...

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By arron_shutt the darpa grand challenge uses a hybrid approach of having a map, a series of waypoints and onboard radar/vision systems to operate a vehicle. it's probably a good example of solving the problems faced in the real world. ...

By gpsmapper robomagellan is a scaled down version of the darpa grand challenge. i think we've seen similar reports before...tmc can be hacked. navteq expands into the asia pacific region. the eu objects to tomtom / teleatlas deal. ...

darpa's decision to give teams the list of gps waypoints only 5 minutes before the race, compared to two hours in 2005. some people felt that in 2005 cmu violated the spirit of the competition by having a dozen people process the ...

By Sharon Weinberger Basically, the vehicle even was equipped very similarly, but in contrast to the Darpa Grand Challenge where the vehicles drive along a track that connects waypoints, defined by GPS navigation, the European Land Robot Trial does not ...

then on saturday at about 4:00 am darpa will give the teams the gps waypoints for this year's route, and at 6:30 am the first vehicle will begin the race. one guy who was at the speedway today and saw a few of the trial runs said “ not ...

By Mike the best run of the day was perfect, the vehicle was able to follow waypoints quickly and precisely. i don't think we lost any points on obstacles or boundaries, it was completed in a ball-park of 2 minutes. ...

i enered the darpa challenge again. this time i actually converted a pickup truck to steer to waypoints, but i neglected to include the work i had done on my vision system in the video i had to submit, and i didn't advance to the next ...