DARPA Grand Challenge (2007)

The DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 is a race between autonomous robotic vehicles, which took place on November 3, 2007 in Victorville, CA on the former George Air Force Base.

The race is the third in the competition by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) initiated a program encouraging the development of autonomous vehicles. In contrast to the two previous races, where an essentially straight course also had to be taken across the desert, abandoned barracks of the former Air Force vertex George Air Force Base is the third race held in built-up areas. For the team that completed the first one 60 miles long and divided into three missions course in less than 6 hours, a total prize money of 3.5 million dollars was announced by DARPA. The first three teams to reach the destination in the shortest time and have to show the least deductions for rule violations, get 2 million, 1 million and 500,000 U.S. dollars. The DARPA Urban Challenge 2007 has won the Tartan Racing Team, second place comes the Stanford Racing Team and to the third place team Victor Tango. The German finalists AnnieWAY (University of Karlsruhe) and CarOLO (TU Braunschweig, successor project: City Pilot) retired during the race due to technical difficulties ( AnnieWAY: probably computer error, stopped at the entrance to a roundabout, CarOLO: bent sensor after collision with the team MIT) from. The VW Passat Junior of the Stanford Racing Team, developed under the leadership of the German -born professor Sebastian Thrun, indeed was the first in the finish line, but got a time penalty for a minor violation of the California Highway Code. The truck from Oshkosh was stopped just before he hit a wall. MIT and Cornell had another collision, but both were able to continue.

Participant

The participating teams are distinguished by DARPA in Track A and Track B, where participants in Track A addition to any prize money will receive up to $ 1 million in financial support for the development of the DARPA.

For the funded participation in the Track A total of eleven teams have qualified. More 78 teams have registered to participate in the Track B, including international teams from Australia, China, Germany, France, Mexico, New Zealand and Austria.

Finalist

The following eleven teams have reached the finals of the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007:

Track A

Teams with seed funding from DARPA in the amount of $ 1 million

  • Team Cornell
  • Honeywell / Intelligent Vehicle Systems
  • WITH
  • Team Oshkosh Truck
  • Stanford Racing Team
  • Tartan Racing
  • Victor Tango

Track B

  • Team AnnieWAY, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Karlsruhe Research Centre, Technical University of Munich, Munich UniBw
  • Ben Franklin Racing Team
  • CarOLO, TU Braunschweig
  • UCF team

Teams with German participation

Highlighted teams have the semi-finals ( National Qualification Event, announced August 9, 2007) achieved.

  • Team AnnieWAY, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe Research Centre, Technical University of Munich University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Consists mainly of members of the SFB Cognitive Automobiles. Car: VW Passat. Website team AnnieWAY
  • Team Berlin, FU Berlin. Car: Dodge Caravan. Website Team Berlin
  • CarOLO, TU Braunschweig. Car: VW Passat. website CarOLO
  • Team -LUX, IBEO Automobile Sensor GmbH, Hamburg. Car: VW Passat. Team -LUX website
  • Tartan Racing, Carnegie Mellon University. Sponsor and team members from Germany. Vehicle: 2007 Chevy Tahoe. Website Tartan Racing
  • Stanford Racing Team, Stanford University. Sponsors, team leaders and members from Germany. Car: VW Passat. Website Stanford Racing Team

Track A teams

  • Team Autonomous Solutions, Young Ward, UT
  • Tartan Racing, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Team Cornell, Ithaca, NY
  • The Golem Group, Santa Monica, CA
  • Intelligent Vehicle Systems Team, Dearborn, MI
  • Team MIT, Cambridge, MA
  • Team Oshkosh Truck, Oshkosh, WI
  • Team Scorpion, Tucson, AZ
  • Stanford Racing Team, Stanford, CA
  • Victor Tango, Blacksburg, VA Website Team Victor Tango

Track B teams

  • Team Grand Challenger, Houston, TX
  • CarOLO, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Martian mentor, Goodrich, MI
  • Car Trek, Morrestown, NJ
  • Mojavaton, Grand Junction, CO
  • True Vision Robotics, Atascadero, CA
  • ROBOKAR, Spring Lake Park, MN
  • Team -LUX, Woodstock, MD
  • UD team Grand Challenge, Dayton, OH
  • RoboRide, Homewood, AL
  • Trobo, Petal, MS
  • Base17 Robotics, Westfield, IN
  • Magnolia, Ridgeland, MS
  • Ody - Era, Carmel, IN
  • American Industrial Magic, Traverse City, MI
  • Spurrier 's Hurriers, Mary Esther, FL
  • Natalythe Engineering, San Diego, CA
  • Team Cybernet, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Albertabot, Fredericton, Canada
  • Insight Racing, Cary, NC
  • LAAE, Hacienda Heights, CA
  • AnnieWAY team, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Project Horizon, Melbourne, FL
  • Team Juggernaut, Sandy, UT
  • BYUC, Provo, UT
  • Team Case, Cleveland, OH
  • Team Promethean, Pittsburgh, PA
  • UU, Westminster, MD
  • A bunch of dropouts, Kingman, AZ
  • Highlander Racing, Newark, NJ
  • Gator Nation, Gainesville, FL
  • Spring Light, Shanghai, China
  • University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Team White Cougar, Las Vegas, NV
  • "R" junk Works, Palmdale, CA
  • Team Nova, Chickasha, OK
  • Magic Highway, U.S.A., Topanga, CA
  • Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
  • Team Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Indiana Robotic navigation, Greenwood, IN
  • Team CajunBot, Lafayette, LA
  • Axion Racing, Westlake Village, CA
  • OSU -ACT, Columbus, OH
  • Team Banzai, Irvine, CA
  • Cakewalk, Whiteland, IN
  • TeamXAR, Irvine, CA
  • Team Gray, Metairie, LA
  • Team UCF, Orlando, FL
  • Team 23 Racing, San Diego, CA
  • Team Jefferson, Crozet, VA
  • Sting Racing, Atlanta, GA
  • Team Urbanator, Owens Cross Roads, AL
  • Oak Ridge Robotics, Oak Ridge, TN
  • SciAutonics / Auburn Engineering, Thousand Oaks, CA
  • The Ben Franklin Racing Team, Philadelphia, PA
  • DOTMOBIL team, Boran sur Oise, France
  • Team Orange, Urbana, IL
  • I- Team, Campbell, CA
  • Space Cowboys, Pinckney, MI
  • Berkeley Sydney Driving Team, Berkeley, CA
  • MEXICO, Puebla, Mexico
  • University of Missouri- Rolla Urban Challenge team, Rolla, MO
  • Cyber ​​Rider, Cambridge, MA
  • AvantGuardium, Bethesda, MD
  • Palos Verdes High School Road Warriors, Palos Verdes, CA
  • ROWSG, Corvallis, OR
  • Cincinnati Bearcats, Cincinnati, OH
  • Grand Challenge Nomadz, Auckland, New Zealand
  • Pegasus, College Station, TX
  • Team Helios, Greenfield, WI
  • Austin Robot Technology, Austin, TX
  • Urban Rangers, Indianapolis, IN
  • The Artificial Automotive Group, Linz, Austria
  • PHD (Programmers Hate Driving ), Phoenix, AZ
  • Team CART, Princeton, WV
  • Team Tebo, Irvine, CA
  • Juxtopia, Baltimore, MD
  • UBC Thunderbird Robotics, Vancouver, Canada
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