[TriLUG] OT - Grand Challenge, autonomous vehicles

[Steve Kuekes]

This is linux related, I am on the Insight Racing team and we use Linux 
for all the computers that control the vehicle.  We were written up in 
the Cary News last thursday.  You can visit our web site 
http://www.insightracing.org

Alan Porter wrote:
> Not directly Linux-related, but geeks of all sorts should
> enjoy this presentation by a local team who have entered
> the DARPA Grand Challenge.
> 
> Alan
> 
> --
> 
> Wednesday July 20, 2005
> 6:00 pm, MCNC Conference Room A/B
> 
> The DARPA Grand Challenge
> Grayson Randall
> 
> IBM employee by day, robotic car builder by night --
> Grayson Randall has assembled a team of engineers and
> students that are building a vehicle to compete in the
> DARPA Grand Challenge, a race of autonomous vehicles
> that travel hundreds of miles across the California/Nevada
> desert.
> 
> Grayson's team entered the 2004 competition, but decided
> that their modified SUV was not quite up to the challenge,
> so they kept working. No one completed the course in 2004.
> 
> This year, they are more prepared... they just earned a
> spot among the 40 semi-finalists!
> 
> Grayson will show pictures and videos from his own team's
> preparations, as well as his competitors' attempts to
> maneuver through the course in 2004. Let's hope that
> his team can go all the way this year!
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 

-- 
Steve Kuekes

Insight Racing http://www.insightracing.org
Private Pilot: N9259R '95 Saratoga based at Sanford-Lee County Regional 
(TTA)
email: skuekes at nc.rr.com