Wednesday, September 13
9:30–10:30am. “Prospect Eleven: the making and running of Princeton’s undergrad entry in the DARPA Grand Challenge” Friend Auditorium, 101.

The Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team will be presenting its work for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge to Princeton’s incoming freshmen engineers from 9:30-10:30am on Wednesday, September 13 in Friend Auditorium 101. Though the annual School of Engineering and Applied Sciences orientation week lecture is traditionally given by a member of the faculty, PAVE has been asked to deliver it this year. We’ll discuss the old challenge, our technical approach, the new Urban Challenge, and have Prospect Eleven parked outside for all to see (and if Public Safety’ll let us get away with it, a demonstration).

PAVE was a finalist at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, and has since been focusing on refining the systems it developed for the competition. We’re excited to announce that we’ll be competing in the upcoming DARPA Urban Challenge!

As part of our new effort, we’ve developed a new website to promote awareness of our work. We’ve worked hard to fill the site with lots of content about the team, our sponsors, and, of course, our current autonomous vehicle, Prospect Eleven.

At present a team of undergraduates is on Princeton’s campus developing software and tools for PAVE’s participation in the Urban Challenge. PAVE is actively seeking sponsors for the coming competition. Please contact us if you’d like to become involved!