2. What is the DARPA Grand Challenge?  Autonomous Robotic Ground Vehicles Goal of the Armed Forces to have 1/3 of the ground vehicles unmanned by 2015 $2 million prize That means no people Navigate 200 miles of rugged terrain from Los Angeles to Las Vegas

3. The Course  Total Miles : 142  GPS Waypoints: 2586  Road Crossings: 40  RR Crossings: 2  Controlled Passing Zones: 19  Media Locations: 8  Critical Tortoise Habitat: 33%

4. The Course

7. Last Year’s Race  106 applications, 40 entries Universities CalTech, Carnegie Mellon, Virginia Tech Hobbyists Government personnel, industry engineers  Industry sponsors Microsoft, Sarnoff, Boeing, Intel

8. Last Year’s Race

10. Next Year’s Race

11. What we have  Princeton Team Seniors committed to senior thesis Summer work group Saturn View (SUV) lined up to arrive Fall Break  Professors from many departments MAE, EE, CS, ORFE, PSY Eg. Kornhauser, Kulkarni, Littman, Rowley, Schwartz

12. Where you come in  Seniors – senior thesis/independent work  Juniors – independent work  Sophomores/freshmen – helping out because you have too much time

13. What needs to get done  Lots of Stuff

14. What we need  Image Processing Artificial intelligence, machine vision, object recognition  Sensors Cameras, laser radar, microwaves, infrared Sensor stabilization (active and passive)  Sensor Arbitration Hardware communication, multiprocessor computation Decision making, path planning

15. What we need  Vehicle Control + Embedded Systems Steering, speed control State measurement (GPS, accelerometers) Hacking of vehicle mechanical systems  Simulator Simulating an environment to test sensors  Random programming

16. What do you need  Experience not necessary  Commitment, dedication, discipline  Interest in working on real world engineering problems  Willing to have FUN

17. Most Importantly  CREATIVITY Blue Team Palos Verde  Random Ideas Touch sensors Flying camera

18. What to do  Sign up!!! Leave email, contact info  Talk to team leaders  Think about what you’d like to work on  Weekly team meetings Tuesdays 8:30PM E-415