The Book: The University of Louisiana's CajunBot

[DaddyCajun]

I have seen the Ragin Bot(Jeep) on West Congress, Cajun Dome Blvd and Bertrand and can't say I saw anyone driving!! May have been someone in it but were they driving?

DaddyCajun

[Kal]

I have seen the Ragin Bot(Jeep) on West Congress, Cajun Dome Blvd and Bertrand and can't say I saw anyone driving!! May have been someone in it but were they driving?

DaddyCajun

What I saw was a man with a laptop in the passenger seat with no one driving the actual jeep. The engineers pre program the map into the car and it follows it.

[Rocent]

LOS ANGELES -- The winners of last year's Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge -- this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself.



Crap my wife does this all the time!

[shof]

LOS ANGELES -- The winners of last year's Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge -- this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself.



Crap my wife does this all the time!

Somebody's wife probably came up with this idea anyway. That way they could apply their make-up better while on the way to work, etc. Great safety idea!

[NewsCopy]

LAFAYETTE — At first glance, the scene would not have looked too far out of the ordinary. The red Jeep drove through an impromptu track set up in the parking lot of the old Evangeline Downs. But a closer look would have revealed an array of electronic equipment, antennas and sensors on top of the Jeep — and inside, no driver. That’s right, CajunBot — the robotic vehicle built by students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette — is back and has a new look. Gone is the old six-wheeled all-terrain hunting vehicle that competed in the finals of the 2004 and 2005 Grand Challenge — an event sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense designed to spur innovations in autonomous vehicles. None of the 13 vehicles finished the 2004 desert course. The next year, a team from Stanford University won. The rest of the story By KEVIN BLANCHARD Advocate Acadiana bureau

[NewsCopy]

LOUISIANA La. — When a local hero retired Wednesday, there was no gold watch or bonus check, just some balloons, a cake — and then the retiree was unceremoniously dismantled. Cajunbot, the little six-wheeled amphibious robotic vehicle that twice made the finals of the ultra-competitive Grand Challenge, was officially retired Wednesday, making way for the younger, sleeker Cajunbot II. The University of Louisianateam took some time from eating cake Wednesday to put some socket wrenches to the little robot that could, removing the sensors, computer equipment and other items that helped Cajunbot navigate its way through the Mojave Desert during the Grand Challenge. The rest of the story By KEVIN BLANCHARD

[NewsCopy]

"Change lanes." "Looking very nice." Arun Lakhotia almost whispers the commands to the bright red Jeep Wrangler navigating a stretch of asphalt at Cajun Field. But it's not Lakhotia's words that guide the vehicle or the hands of a driver behind the wheel. The Jeep is CajunBot II, the autonomous vehicle designed by a team of students and researchers at UL for the Department of Defense's DARPA -Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. On Wednesday, CajunBot II showed DARPA officials what it could do. The officials will decide in a few weeks which teams will compete in its Urban Challenge on Nov. 3. The challenge was created three years ago to promote the development of autonomous vehicles that could perform defense duties - from scouting and armed defense to delivering supplies in war zones. The team was one of 53 that DARPA officials are visiting to see which 30 will move on to the qualification event at the end of October. Those who qualify will then move onto the actual race where the top prize is $2 million, with $1 million and $500,000 going to the second- and third-place finishers. The rest of the story Marsha Sills msills@theadvertiser.com

[NewsCopy]

At 12:30 p.m. today, UL's team CajunBot should learn whether it will advance as a semi-finalist in the Department of Defense's DARPA Grand Challenge race of autonomous vehicles. The race is scheduled for the fall. It would be the third time the team has qualified for the race developed by the DoD's research agency to foster private research of autonomous vehicles for military purposes. Check back after 1 p.m. for an update about the team's next step. The source of the story

[Go_UL]

http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/...nouncement.pdf

team cajunbot advances!!!

[TopSpinCajun]

A Legacy in the making.