we won!

[Kuciwalker]

Carnegie Mellon won the DARPA Urban Challenge and 2 million dollars. The Urban Challenge was an hours-long race between completely robotic cars from different teams trying to complete certain objectives by driving around a city while obeying all traffic laws and avoiding collisions with stationary objects and other vehicles. Stanford narrowly beat us in the original Grand Challenge, a race through a desert course, and they actually completed this challenge 2 minutes before we did (while starting 40 minutes earlier), but the scoring ended up favoring us and we won the top prize.

[Donegeal]

How were you involved with this?

[Kuciwalker]

1) It's my school. People say "we won" re: football games et. al. all the time, it seems equally valid for this case.

2) I wrote a program that did some topographical stuff with a satellite photo of the course, but they ended up using something else.

[Darius871]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
1) It's my school. People say "we won" re: football games et. al. all the time, it seems equally valid for this case.

no

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
1) It's my school. People say "we won" re: football games et. al. all the time, it seems equally valid for this case.

2) I wrote a program that did some topographical stuff with a satellite photo of the course, but they ended up using something else.

So... that would sort of make you like player cut from the team. Just couldn't hack it, eh?

[Donegeal]

Nah... I'll take Kuci claim of "we" as valid based on his anaolgy (but doing so for academic stuff IS pretty weak).

I read about this in popular science. Which system did they use? And if you wrote a program for the topicgraphical aspects of the course, then it would seem that the victory is kinda hollow as it would be specific to the course and not for general use.

Make one that can go in any city without having to update a topigraphical map.

[Jon Miller]

would probably be easier to have a topological map of every city

JM

[Aeson]

Kuci

How many pedestrians were run over in the course of the competition? (By your team, or other teams. Or even by you personally.)

[Kuciwalker]

Nah... I'll take Kuci claim of "we" as valid based on his anaolgy (but doing so for academic stuff IS pretty weak).

So it's okay to have some sort of communal celebration of a meaningless few hours of entertainment that will be forgotten by nearly everyone, but not so for a huge, lasting contribution to the advancement of science and technology?

[Lancer]

We won!!!

USA! USA! USA!

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Donegeal
Nah... I'll take Kuci claim of "we" as valid based on his anaolgy (but doing so for academic stuff IS pretty weak).

I read about this in popular science. Which system did they use? And if you wrote a program for the topicgraphical aspects of the course, then it would seem that the victory is kinda hollow as it would be specific to the course and not for general use.

Make one that can go in any city without having to update a topigraphical map.

Eh it had nothing to do with the specifics. The program I wrote took a number of known coordinates (the GPS route we were given) and an aerial or satellite photo, and "undistorted" the photo (it would be distorted based on hills, etc.) using that data, producing a new image.

I don't know how they were going to use this specifically, actually.

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker

Nah... I'll take Kuci claim of "we" as valid based on his anaolgy (but doing so for academic stuff IS pretty weak).

So it's okay to have some sort of communal celebration of a meaningless few hours of entertainment that will be forgotten by nearly everyone, but not so for a huge, lasting contribution to the advancement of science and technology?

Yes.

[Kuciwalker]

(We actually built 2 cars.)

[DRoseDARs]

lol Carnegie won, Kuci lost LOL

pwned

[Aeson]

I revoke my earlier and change it to a based on that third image...