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[Project image] Urban Challenge
Head: William Red L. Whittaker
Contact: Christopher Urmson (curmson@ri.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: FRC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

This page last updated - February 2007.
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Project Description

In the Urban Challenge, fully-autonomous ground vehicles will conduct simulated military supply missions in a mock urban area. The final event will be held on November 3, 2007 at a currently-unknown location in the western United States. Robotic vehicles will attempt to complete a 60-mile course through traffic in less than six hours, operating solely under their own computer-based control. To succeed, vehicles must obey traffic laws while safely merging into moving traffic, navigating traffic circles, negotiating busy intersections, and avoiding obstacles.

Please see our official project page for more details.

Personnel [Past Members]

Name Title Email Address
Joshua Anhalt Research Programmer anhalt@andrew.cmu.edu
James's personal homepage James (Drew) Bagnell Research Scientist bagnell2@andrew.cmu.edu
Christopher Baker PhD Student, RI tallbaker@cmu.edu
Robert E Bittner Senior Robotics Test Engineer rbittner@andrew.cmu.edu
Stephen A. DiAntonio Dir of Strategic Business Develop - NREC sda@rec.ri.cmu.edu
John's personal homepage John Dolan Senior Systems Scientist jmd@cs.cmu.edu
David Duggins Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager duggins@ri.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Ferguson Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) dif@cmu.edu
Tugrul Galatali Visiting Scholar tugrul@galatali.com
Michele's personal homepage Michele Gittleman Project Manager michgitt@cmu.edu
Martial's personal homepage Martial Hebert Professor hebert@ri.cmu.edu
Thomas Howard PhD Student, RI thoward@andrew.cmu.edu
Alonzo's personal homepage Alonzo Kelly Associate Professor alonzo@ri.cmu.edu
David Kohanbash Research Engineer dkohanba@cs.cmu.edu
Kevin Peterson PhD Student, RI kp@andrew.cmu.edu
Paul's personal homepage Paul Rybski Systems Scientist prybski+web@cs.cmu.edu
Bryan Salesky NREC Commercialization Specialist bsalesky@rec.ri.cmu.edu
Tuviah (Ed) Schlesinger Professor, ECE ed@ece.cmu.edu
Reid's personal homepage Reid Simmons Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair, RI/CS reids@cs.cmu.edu
Sanjiv's personal homepage Sanjiv Singh Associate Research Professor ssingh@ri.cmu.edu
Anthony's personal homepage Anthony (Tony) Stentz Research Professor/Assoc Dir NREC tony+@cmu.edu
Michael Taylor Visiting Researcher taylor_michael_a5@cat.com
Christopher Urmson Dir of Tech for Urban Grand Challenge curmson@ri.cmu.edu
William Red's personal homepage William Red L. Whittaker University Professor red@ri.cmu.edu

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