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` Brian Staszel2024-09-03T22:07:07-04:00 Autonomous “Self-Driving” Vehicles
The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University began working on the dream of cars that could drive themselves in the 1980s. The hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people who worked on the various aspects of this complex problem put their heart and soul into custom built hardware and software that is now embedded in the DNA of every modern self-driving car.
Boss
2007
Boss won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007.
2005
H1ghlander competed in and finished 3rd in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.
2004
High-performance off-road navigator for racing in the DARPA Grand Challenge in the California desert.
1995
Built upon autonomous vehicle research of the 1980s and set the stage for leaps made in the 2000s.
1986
Pioneered high performance outdoor navigation. NavLab deployed racks of computers, laser scanners, and color cameras providing cutting-edge perception in its time.
1984
Terregator pioneered exploration, road following and mine mapping. It was the world’s first rugged, capable, autonomous outdoor navigation robot.
1984
Neptune was a functional vehicle for autonomous mobile robot research from Moravec's Mobile Robot Lab.
As a reliable mobile base, it supported experiments in perception, real-world modeling, navigation, planning and high-level control. It was self-propelled, with computer control of direction and motivation. One of the prime design goals was the minimization of the number of subsystems.