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Darpa Gr<strong>and</strong> Challenge<br />
• First held in 2004, 2nd held on Oct, 8 th 2005<br />
• Designed to accelerate research <strong>and</strong> development in<br />
autonomous ground vehicle technology that will help<br />
save lives on the battlefield<br />
• Team whose fully autonomous ground vehicle finishes a<br />
course, from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, in the fastest<br />
time <strong>and</strong> under 10 hours, wins $1M (2004) / $2M (2005).<br />
• Course:<br />
– defined by ~ 1000 waypoints, given 2 hrs before race.<br />
– on-road, off-road, trails, water, obstacles<br />
– 2005: 131.6 miles in Mohave Desert; ~ 25 mph average speed<br />
• Only publicly available signals (e.g., GPS) may be used.<br />
© 2004-2008, Prof. Dr. R. Lienhart, Head of <strong>Multimedia</strong> <strong>Computing</strong>, Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg<br />
Eichleitnerstr. 30, D-86135 Augsburg, Germany; email: Rainer.Lienhart@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
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