DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 over
Posted by Eric Stewart Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:44:00 GMT
The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge is finishing up this morning. Already 5 teams have completed this year and more are coming in. Team ENSCO might still have a chance.
Unfortunately some of the teams I was routing for didn’t make it.- Team Banzai – A Tourag driven by Max OSX based computer that almost made it. They completed 2 out of 3 runs in a qualifying event
- Austin Robot Technology – A local Austin group that doesn’t seem to have made the finalists list and I haven’t seen yet why
- MonsterMoto – A local Cedar Park based group that was a finalist but apparantly not a finisher this time around
- Team Mojavaton – A Colorado group who wisely chose to use a Nissan XTerra named the Xboxx (Of course these finished!)
- Team Mojavaton – A Colorado group who wisely chose to use a Nissan XTerra named the Xboxx
Looks like there are are many entries still on their way in as I type this, but here are the top finishers so far…
- Gray Team – Bad choice using an Escape but at least it was a hybrid. And who am I kidding, they finished just thirteen minutes behind Standford’s second entry (Red Team Two)
- Red Team – Those Carnegia Mellon people seem to know something about robotics.. they managed to enter two vehicles and had them both finish.
- Stanford Racing Team – The Stanford team won it all with a modded Touraeg, though it looks like they only beat Red Team by about 4 minutes. Ouch!
Now if I can just manage to find out how to get myself on one of these teams in coming years….
