team on the cutting edge of robotics was irresistible, though I was more than a little daunted: the race called for an average speed of over 25 mph sustained for up to 10 hours, we had less than a year to design the vehicle, and the off-road course would not be known in advance. ...
In 2003, I was asked to help engineer software for an autonomous vehicle to be entered in an off-road race, theDARPA Grand Challenge, which you may have read about last spring. The opportunity to be involved in a team on the cutting edge of robotics was irresistible, though I was more...