New Storage Container

We're continuing testing. In the mean time we've rented a shipping container for secure storage of Ben.

Qualifications for the Semi-Finals

I'm proud to announce that we are one of the 36 teams selected for the semi-final event starting October 26th.

The Darpa Press Release is here http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/docs/PR_UC_Semifinalist_Announcement.pdf

Congrats to all the other teams!

Video Highlights from the Site Visit

Here's a video of our performance at the site visit.

Short Clip of the Site Visit

Site Visit Completed

Sorry for the long delay in posting. We've been working hard on the vehicle and have made good progress.

Today we completed our official site visit. We successfully completed all 4 missions in approximately two hours and had time for a few extra demonstrations.

Photos are below. And hopefully we'll have a video to post soon as well.

Thank you to all our fans who came out to support us on this hot Sunday.

New Photos Posted

There are new photos of the latest generation of sensor roof rack as well as new photos of the EMC system and computing rack.

Testing Update,

We made it up to Lehigh by midday and had a good afternoon of testing.

• We successfully logged performance data for trajfollower.
  
• We also drove the site visit course again now with OmniStar DGPS coverage.
• I successfully tested the distributed logging on the RT3K module, however the combination of Xforwarding, rendering, and NFS caused problems with the velodyne logging in this manner. So we logged in the old format as we drove with other vehicles around the site visit route.
• Dan demonstrated successful following using the matlab controller up to 17 mph forward and 15 mph in reverse in a relatively tight course.The vehicle was programmed to automatically slow for corners.
• And we were able to successfully navigate the site visit course with dense waypoints, with the problem that the tracks would drift off the road due to GPS offset.

Tully