We’re constantly maintaining and updating our website, and lately we’ve done a few major uploads of publications and content:
- Our 2009 IGVC design report is now available as a pdf download.
- A paper on our method of lane detection, written by Derrick Yu as part of a Junior Independent Work project is also now available as a pdf download.
- We’ve finally gotten around to updating our navigation page for the 2008 IGVC.
In addition, we’re working on embedding all of our videos and adding a gallery of our photos. However, you can always visit our flickr group and our YouTube channel for photos and videos, respectively. We’ll also be updating our site with more content about Argos, our entry in the 2009 IGVC.
We’ve been working hard over the past few weeks to update our website to reflect our current organization and projects. We’ve slightly updated the look of the site, and we’ve also updated the pages with content about our participation in the 2008 IGVC. We added a section for our Current Projects, which we will be continually updating with information about our current work on Prospect Twelve and our entry in the 2009 IGVC. Finally, on our Sponsors page, we’ve added a link to a pdf download of our sponsor packet, which you can also get here.
We are looking forward to making progress in the coming weeks on both our current projects, and we will be bringing you the updates as they happen.
As part of the “young filmmakers” program hosted this summer by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Taofik Kolade ’08 – MAE has put together a great video summarizing our experience at the IGVC competition. Enjoy!
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!
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.
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 checked-in to our hotel and were able squeeze in some last minute testing. Please watch today’s video summary:
Tomorrow (Friday) is the first day of the competition. Stay tuned for further updates on our experiences and progress.
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.
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