We’re excited to announce that we’ll be participating in the 2010 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC), which will run from June 5-8, 2010 in Rochester, Michigan. At this point, we are still finalizing our plans for our 2010 entry, which is yet to be named. Check back in the coming months for news and updates on the progress of our 2010 IGVC team.

We’re constantly maintaining and updating our website, and lately we’ve done a few major uploads of publications and content:

• Our 2009 IGVC design report is now available as a pdf download.
• A paper on our method of lane detection, written by Derrick Yu as part of a Junior Independent Work project is also now available as a pdf download.
• We’ve finally gotten around to updating our navigation page for the 2008 IGVC.

In addition, we’re working on embedding all of our videos and adding a gallery of our photos. However, you can always visit our flickr group and our YouTube channel for photos and videos, respectively. We’ll also be updating our site with more content about Argos, our entry in the 2009 IGVC.

The Princeton IGVC team will be arriving in Rochester, Michigan on Thursday for the 17th annual IGVC. The competition begins tomorrow with the first round of design competitions. We will be making our design presentation on Saturday. Today, our team is enjoying a day at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, before completing the remaining two hours to the competition location. We’ll be updating the blog with plenty of photos and videos as the competition progresses. Check back soon!

The IGVC team continues to make good progress after recovering from setbacks encountered prior to exhibiting during the NYC FIRST Regional Competition. Since last week when the new electrical system components arrived, the team has been working to get the robot wired up and rolling on its wheels again.
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PAVE is very proud to announce that our participation in the 2008 IGVC competition has been extremely successful. We have won the following awards:
- 6th Place Autonomous Challenge (lane-following / obstacle avoidance)
- Completed JAUS Challenge (ability to communicate over the DoD’s standard message protocol for unmanned systems)
- 4th Place Navigation Challenge (GPS waypoint-following / obstacle avoidance)
- 1st Place Design Challenge (based on technical paper, oral presentation and robot inspection)
- Rookie of the Year
- 3rd Place overall (out of 47 teams)

A summary video will be posted shortly.

IGVC team members: Andrew Saxe ‘08, Chris Baldassano ‘09, Ben Chen ‘09, Gordon Franken ‘09, Will Hu ‘09, Jonathan Mayer ‘09, Tom Yeung ‘09, David Benjamin ‘10, Derrick Yu ‘10

A sidenote about the videos: We are aware that there has been some trouble accessing the summary videos we posted on youtube. This problem has been fixed – the videos should now load normally.