Very cool!!! Glad this place and all of it's connections can be of help..
Keep up the dream!!
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Very cool!!! Glad this place and all of it's connections can be of help..
Keep up the dream!!
Scott / moncha.com
'Zoid
We are one of 89 teams competing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. We are partnering with the Computer Science department at The University of Texas (Robotics/Artificial Intelligence). Checkout a recent picture of our VX with the Texas license plate "ROBOT" :
Here's our official picture at the DARPA website.
Sweet, so how much $$ is sitting on/in that thing right now?
"You can live your life in a thousand ways,
but it all comes down to that single day,
when you realize what you regret,
but you cant relaim and you cant forget."
----Trans Siberian Orchestra
Super VXer
And do you have closer pictures of the roof rack? I would love to know how you are securing things up there.
Fuzzy
2001 Proton #1413
Kaneohe, HI
'Zoid
Sorry for the late reply... I've uploaded a picture to the gallery, click here .
The picture shows how we mount sensors onto our robotic VX (Ironman Edition). We bolted a specially laminated sensor board, a.k.a. an old formica table-top :-) to the roof rack, then bolt the sensors to the formica tabletop... errrr sensor board. The blue "snorkel" is used to route wires from the sensors to the inside of the vehicle (the side window is replaced with a transparent acrylic panel and the snorkel is attached with a seal to the panel). The big sensor on the roof is a 200 pound rotating laser. It has 64 lasers that each capture over 4,000 points 360 degrees around the car, 20 times per second (a 5 milion point cloud per second). It was built by another team for last year's competition, we tested it. They are selling a much smaller and lighter version of it now as a product... price tag is $75K.
Although it would be a lot of work, we could actually restore the VX to its original condition. We had a couple of scrapes in last years qualifying event, you'd have to look closely to notice them.
'Zoid
Robotic VX ready to compete
Competition starts tomorrow... our robotic VX is one of 35 vehicles ready to take on DARPA's Urban Challenge:
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/34546/113/
http://www.austinrobot.com
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
Hopefully it won't be a demolition derby
Super VXer
awesome good luck man! ill be rootin for ya
"Engineers believe if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet"
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