Six Winners At DARPA Urban Challenge, CMU Takes First
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 5 of November , 2007 at 4:44 am
The DARPA Urban Challenge for robotic vehicles concluded on Saturday, with Carnegie Mellon’s robotic 2007 Chevy Tahoe, named Boss, taking top honors and the $2 million first prize. In contrast to the first DARPA Grand Challenge in 2004, where no robots completed the course, there were six finishers this year, although the last few took longer than the six hour time limit. Still, it’s a pretty impressive feat for a robotic car to spend six hours on the road completing tasks among other cars with no human guidance whatsoever. Here’s some short clips from the event; hopefully we’ll see more video in not too long:
The critical point here is that all of the robots were able to make good decisions when confronted with complicated variables and rapidly changing situations. The top three committed NO traffic violations over the 60 mile course. The deciding factor then became speed, and at an average speed of 14 mph, Boss won out by a 20 minute margin over second place Stanford (average speed 13 mph), winners of the first DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005.
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Competitive, Research
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