PAVE would like extend a welcome and thanks to our recently acquired sponsors. These companies are now part of the growing PAVE family that shares the experience of competing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The ShockTech corporation in Monsey, NY has donated shock-isolating mounts for our rack-mounted computers. Our neighbors in Princeton Junction, NJ, Posital have helped us acquire a high-resolution optical encoder for steering feedback. Finally, the fine folks at BookSwim have agreed to join our Business team as consultants.

Recently, several members of PAVE were invited out to Pasadena, CA to visit the Urban Challenge team at Caltech. During the visit we exchanged and compared our ideas and approaches for the upcoming Challenge. This was a very positive experience for PAVE, and we would like to extend our greatest thanks to Team Caltech. We wish you all the best in the competition!

We’ve been hard at work for the Urban Challenge, and all the teams are making progress by leaps and bounds. This past Saturday PAVE was featured by the Society for Women Engineers, at a colloquium for high-school girls who are interested in pursuing careers in science and engineering.

We are very excited to announce two new partners we’ll have in the Urban Challenge! Texas Instruments is a world leader in the DSP industry. Valde Systems creates hi-performance DSP hardware for machine vision solutions. Our partnerships with TI and Valde will be invaluable to our Urban challenge efforts.