As we continue to develop our technology for the Urban Challenge, our hardware systems are being finalized and we are focusing more on programming software intelligence. As systems are wrapped up, we will be posting summaries of our implementation here on the website. For now, check out the sensing and drive-by-wire systems articles under the Urban Challenge section. We will continue to add more to this section as we progress.

On tuesday afternoon, April 24, we were happy to welcome Mike Selzler to PAVE for a visit. Mike is the leader of team AutoTrek, in nearby Moorestown, NJ. He was kind enough to bring along their autonomous vehicle, which has been entered in both the 2005 and 2007 DARPA Challenges.

(l to r) Prospect Eleven, PAVE’s current vehicle and AutoTrek’s Ford Bronco

We took this opportunity discuss our respective approaches for the upcoming challenge. We also enjoyed how neat it was to have three autonomous vehicles in one place!

Mike Selzler (r) and some of the PAVE team, with our autonomous vehicles.

We have begun to enhance the technical section of our Urban Challenge approach. Check out our latest update on sensing. Stay tuned for further updates.

PAVE is pleased to announce that we have submitted our Video Demonstration to DARPA. We will find out on May 10th whether we have been accepted to the next phase of the competition - a site visit evaulation in June or July. Feel free to view our video here:

We have continued to receive press coverage. Check out some recent articles in The Princeton Packet as well as Princeton’s own E-Quad News Blog. We were also featured in a video clip, at TVJersey.com.

On Friday March 30, PAVE hosted a study break with the Princeton Student Chapter of IEEE outside of our garage. We demonstrated our “drive-by-gamepad” system to a crowd of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff.

We are also excited about the two recent publications on our team. We are proud to announce our first international coverage by LUSA, a Portuguese news syndicate. In addition, we were featured locally in The Princeton Packet.

For the past few weeks we have been preparing for our video submission to DARPA. We have been doing extensive testing and filming at Princeton’s Forrestal campus.