http://pave.princeton.edu/main Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:25:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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! http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/134 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 ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/133 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 ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/132 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 ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/131 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 ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/130 Today was the first day of the actual competition. We arrived this morning, unloaded the robot and set up our pit area. We passed the qualification run in the early afternoon, leaving us much time to test, debug and fine tune our software. The IGVC consists of three main ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/129 We packed up our rented van with our luggage, tools, equipment and yes...our robot, Kratos. The 640 mile drive from Princeton to the competition site in Auburn Hills, MI took about 12 hours - we spent the night in eastern Ohio. After arriving in Michigan this morning, we ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/128 For the past semester, a team of nine students on PAVE have been building a robot for the 2008 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). The IGVC will be held in Rochester, MI from May 30 to June 2. The student's robot, called Kratos, is 3 feet wide, 4 feet long, ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/127 For the past few months we've been analyzing our performance as a team during the duration of the Urban Challenge. Through our participation in the Urban Challenge, we've learned valuable lessons in teamwork and leadership. Those lessons will be incorporated into our current research efforts. During the fall of 2007, we ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/124 It was incredibly exciting for us to be in attendance at the NQE for the Urban Challenge and to watch the final race on November 3. We regret to announce that we were not accepted as a finalist for the Urban Challenge. The selection process was extremely rigorous: ... http://pave.princeton.edu/main/archives/120