We’ve been rather busy since the conclusion of the IGVC with traveling and unpacking; we apologize for the delay in posting this video from the final day of the competition. Hope you enjoy!

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.

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.

Today’s video summary:

Today was a very successful day. This morning we went through several practice runs on our presentation - we had a lot of material to present and only 10 minutes to do so. Our presentation was at 3pm, and we talked with four IGVC judges. They asked us a number of detailed questions on our implementation - it seemed as though they were very impressed with our robot. Please watch a video summary of today, including highlights from our presentation. The rest of the afternoon was spent debugging and fine tuning our systems in preparation for the Navigation and Autonomous challenges on Monday.

We’ve been spending a lot of time gearing up for our design presentation, which was this afternoon, so this video summary from Day 2 is coming a little late. We hope you are enjoying our daily progress updates. Please feel free to e-mail any questions or comments to us.