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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Robotic Vehicle that Won the Darpa Urban Challenge Race
Robotic Vehicle that Won the Race
Whittaker, the Fredkin professor of robotics, director of the Field Robotics Center and founder of the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, all at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is a big name in the robotics field. He's credited with liberating robots from repetitive assembly line work and setting them loose in the field.
Most recently, Whittaker led a Carnegie Mellon team that won a robotic vehicle race called the Darpa Urban Challenge. The race was overseen by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The goal of the race was to show that self-driving vehicles could conduct military missions without human assistance. The U.S. wants to use robotic supply trucks soon to keep soldiers out of harm's way. Whittaker's vehicle zipped through the 60-mile course in a mock urban setting in Victorville, Calif. The robot car had to merge into traffic, deal with busy intersections, avoid obstacles and follow California driving rules.
Full story here
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Whittaker, the Fredkin professor of robotics, director of the Field Robotics Center and founder of the National Robotics Engineering Consortium, all at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is a big name in the robotics field. He's credited with liberating robots from repetitive assembly line work and setting them loose in the field.
Most recently, Whittaker led a Carnegie Mellon team that won a robotic vehicle race called the Darpa Urban Challenge. The race was overseen by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The goal of the race was to show that self-driving vehicles could conduct military missions without human assistance. The U.S. wants to use robotic supply trucks soon to keep soldiers out of harm's way. Whittaker's vehicle zipped through the 60-mile course in a mock urban setting in Victorville, Calif. The robot car had to merge into traffic, deal with busy intersections, avoid obstacles and follow California driving rules.
Full story here
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Robots Take to the Streets: Junior and the DARPA Urban Challenge
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