Meet BOB, Caltech's entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge

[Kevin Watson]

Meet BOB, Caltech's entry into the DARPA Grand Challenge. This picture was taken yesterday during testing at one of Santa Anita's vast parking lots. We spent much of the day establishing and documenting various protocols for stuff like remotly shutting-down the vehicle in an emergency. At the end of the day, we demonstrated that we could autonomously avoid obstacles using LIDAR. Today we hope to demonstrate autonomous GPS way-point following with obstacle avoidance using stereo vision and LIDAR.

-Kevin