Making a robotic cross-country racer: designing a robot that can travel 140 miles across the desert is hardly child's play.(Automotive)(United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

From: Machine Design | Date: February 17, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

At the start of last year's cross-country Grand Challenge race sponsored by Darpa (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), 15 unmanned vehicles stood ready to make their way past 200 waypoints and the finish line. They were all designed to travel 140 miles across rough desert terrain while navigating through GPS checkpoints and avoiding a myriad of natural obstacles like lakes, cliffs, and boulders, as well as manmade structures like fences and drainage ditches. And they would do it without human intervention.

There was an array of competitors, everything from modified ...

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