On Saturday, April 4, members of PAVE gave a presentation during Princeton SWE’s High School Colloquium. The presentation was followed by a tour of Prospect Twelve.

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Several PAVE students were invited to present their paper, Kratos: Princeton University’s Entry in the 2008 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition at the 2009 SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Conference on Tuesday, January 20th. The conference, which was held in San Jose, CA from January 18-22, brought together professional and academics in a variety of fields relating to computers, digital imaging and their applications.

PAVE seniors Chris Baldassano, Gordon Franken and Jonathan Mayer presented the paper as part of the Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision sub-conference. The submitted paper was a revised version of the technical paper for which PAVE’s 2008 IGVC team won a first place design award. The work was co-authored by Andrew Saxe ‘08 and Derrick Yu ‘10, and advised by Professor Robert Schapire of the Computer Science Department.

On Thursday, November 20, PAVE was the featured presenter at the monthly meeting of the joint ACM/IEEE, Princeton Chapter. At the auditorium on the Sarnoff Corporation campus, PAVE gave an hour-long presentation, filled with videos, photos and stories about all of our past projects, including the 2005 and 2007 Grand Challenges, the 2008 IGVC, as well as ongoing research. Afterwards, the attendees met the PAVE members and examined Prospect 12, which was on display for the event.

This month, PAVE will be featured at several events around New Jersey. Both events are open to the pubic with no charge for admission.

On November 13th, we will be at the fourth annual UsabilityNJ event for World Usability Day New Jersey 2008. The event is hosted at Rutgers, CAIP Center, CoRE building, Busch campus, Piscataway, NJ and runs from 4-9PM. The theme this year will be ‘Usability in Transportation’, and Prospect Twelve will be on display alongside several electric vehicles and Segways. Although we are not scheduled to present, PAVE will have a table at the event where we will be distributing information and showing videos of Prospect Twelve in action. For more information about the event or to obtain directions, please visit the UsabilityNJ website here.

On November 20th, PAVE will be presenting at the joint meeting of the Princeton chapters of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Computer Society (IEEE-CS) at Sarnoff Corporation in Princeton. We will be giving a talk about our participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, as well as on our current and future research. A PDF with more details of the event is available here. We will also have Prospect Twelve with us at this event.

PAVE is excited to be a part of both of these events and we look forward to seeing you there!

We are extremely proud to announce that the Princeton team has won first place in the Design Competition of the 2008 IGVC. The Design Competition evaluated teams’ technical papers as well as an oral presentation and a robot inspection. We were selected as one of 6 finalists this morning, and gave a second oral presentation to a new set of judges in the afternoon. The winners were announced during an awards ceremony at 5pm. Congratulations to all of the Design Finalists: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Detroit Mercy, Missouri University of Science and Technology, California State University Northridge, and École de technologie supérieure.

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