DARPA Grand Challenge Photos

[Kevin Watson]

Well, today was the first day for DGC inspections and qualifying runs. Team Caltech is currently in the lead. In fact, only two teams managed to get their 'bots off of the starting line. Palos Verdes High School was the other team that managed to do at least part of the qualifying course. Team Caltech was doing beautifully until we ran into a wall two-thirds of the way through. Turns out that the portion of the code that puts the 'bot in reverse to back out of a cul-de-sac was commented out late last night while testing (DOH!). Anyway, we're pretty confident that we'll make it through our second run on Wednesday. The Red Team showed up and worked on their 'bot all day. Hopefully we'll get to see them run tomorrow. As things were kinda frantic today, I only got to take a few photos. I'll try to get some more tomorrow.

-Kevin

Here's Bob (Team Caltech's entry) just out of the starting gate:



Here's Bob doin' his thing:



Red Team's 'bot:





Ohio State's Entry (this bad-boy is waaay over the top):