Operating alone: autonomous systems are showing up in more places. Competitions such as the DARPA grand challenge are increasing their visibility.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)

From: EDN | Date: December 5, 2005| Author: Cravotta, Robert | Copyright information

The DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge is a highly publicized competition to encourage the development of fully autonomous vehicles that can complete an off-road desert course. On Oct 9, 2005, the Stanford Racing Team, from a field of 23 competitors, claimed the $2 million prize for its vehicle, which completed a 132-mile desert course in California with no human assistance once it left the starting gate (Figure 1). Four other fully autonomous vehicle...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

Operating alone: autonomous systems are showing up in more places. Competitions such as the DARPA grand challenge are increasing their visibility.(Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
EDN ; The DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Grand Challenge is a highly publicized competition to encourage the development of fully autonomous vehicles that can complete an off-road desert course. On Oct 9, 2005, the Stanford Racing Team, from a field of 23 competitors, claimed the $2
The process dynamics of normative function.(The Philosophy of Biology)
The Monist ; The hand separated from the body is not a true hand. --Aristotle, Politics I.2.1253a20-21. (1) Introduction In this paper we outline a theory of normative functionality aimed at understanding the nature of adaptive systems as globally structured, integrated systems. More specifically, the account
ATOE Conference. (Professional Development).(Brief Article)
Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World ; The Automation Technology for Off-Road Equipment (ATOE) Conference will be held July 26-27, 2002 at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. This conference precedes the ASAECIGR Annual International Meeting. Mel Torrie of Autonomous Systems, Inc., will give the keynote speech, Joint Architecture for Unmanned
Missiles and Autonomous Systems Laboratory Dedicated at NUWC Newport
Sea Technology ; The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport, Rhode Island, dedicated a new missiles and autonomous systems laboratory earlier this year. The facility provides secure laboratories and supporting office space that will be shared by the Platform and Payload Integration Department's
Lorenz. Autonomous Systems: Red Rocks. Nine Strange Attractors. Gradients
Fanfare ; DUNN Lorenz. Autonomous Systems: Red Rocks. Nine Strange Attractors. Gradients * NEW WORLD 80660 (67:24) David Dunn (b. 1953) works from the premise that music can be a point of contact between human culture and nature, but his definition of the latter is far different from either the Romantic or
UAV Center Planned
Signal ; INTERNATIONAL A government and industry collaborative effort will bring a global center for autonomous systems to Victoria, Australia. The center will comprise an autonomous systems design and development facility and an integration laboratory in Melbourne as well as an unmanned aerial vehicle
Identifying the Conceptual Basis for Autonomous Systems
RUSI Journal ; Identifying the Conceptual Basis for Autonomous Systems Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds By David McFarland 16.99, 256 pages Oxford University Press, 2008 ISBN: 019921929X David McFarland was recently Professor of Biological Robotics at the University of the West of England
Introduction.
The Biological Bulletin ; DIANA E. J. BLAZIS [1] FRANK W. GRASSO [2 This workshop--entitled Invertebrate Sensory Information Processing: Implications for Biologically Inspired Autonomous Systems --was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Studies in the Space Life Sciences at the Marine Biological Laboratory. At this
"Eigene Systeme"
Artforum ; "EIGENE SYSTEME" KUNSTVEREIN HARBURGER BAHNHOF/INSTITUT FUR ZEITGENOSSISCHE KUNST The attempt to counter prevailing political, economic, and social realities with an alternative model may be the most ubiquitous impulse in modern and contemporary art. "Eigene Systeme" (Autonomous systems) tried to
Ocean sampling mobile network controller
Sea Technology ; Hierarchical C2 Concept for MultiAUV Network; Testbed Facility for Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling Network distributed, high resolution, robust, and affordable concept for an Autonomous Oceanographic Sampling Network (AOSN) of undersea vehicles has been formulated to support vigorous hypothesis