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RE: The grand challenge
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Date: 
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:26:20 GMT
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Yes I know, and I'm also looking how they do (looks like • game is over
now, after at most 11 of 229km).
So I was not really serious, but neither was I 100% joking.
There have been serious robot competitions where Mindstorms based
robots have won,

Comparing the sophistication involved in those vehicles and  lego mindstorms
based robots are far stretching.  The links  you provide are not related to
lego mindstorms, but they definitely
do look interesting, of course. Some of the teams at the DARPA  challenge
were led by renowned robotics scientist, such as Dr. Red William Whittaker.
The computing power of some of
equipment is superb... Some part of terrain is very very  rugged,  across
brushes, steep hills covered with rocks, ridges, feets-deep water, just
treacherous roads.

--
E

mostly because they were the easiest
to get running, and the others all broke down more or less.
For example

http://advance.uri.edu/pacer/september2000/story5.htm
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/2000/photogallery.cfm
http://www.auvsi.org/competitions/2000/pics/URI1.jpg


Jürgen

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Jürgen Stuber <stuber@loria.fr>
http://www.loria.fr/~stuber/




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  Re: The grand challenge
 
Was it last year or the year before that the big competition was the underater robot which had to navigate thru some sort of course. IIRC, the MIT team came in first, but their 'bot cost some outrageous amount--and the second place team used 2 RCX's (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-04, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc, lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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