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October 22, 2007

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DPHA Advisory Smoke (2) (pdf)

Air quality deemed unhealthy for outdoor activity throughout LA County, including all school outdoor sports and physical activity programs

[Team Caltech's] robotic vehicle Alice has headed off for Victorville and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. Equipped with eight cameras that feed information to computers at rates of hundreds of megabits per second and hierarchical computer software system, Alice is ready to drive in a mock city -- the environment of this new Challenge. The team, headed by Richard Murray, Everhart Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, and Joel Burdick, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering, is close to 80 strong, and consists of undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and faculty members.
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Press Release: http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR13054.html

ALICE ON TRIAL, REDUX (TOP STORIES)                                              
                                                                                
    When Alice revs her engine at the start of the Defense Advanced              
    Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge qualifying            
    rounds on October 27, multitudes of cameras will be pointing at
    her. But she'll only care about the eight cameras that will be
    facing away. Alice is the tricked-out Ford E-350 van that has
    been revamped to autonomously navigate the vagaries of an urban          
    setting. To do so, she sports eight cameras that feed information
    to computers at rates of hundreds of megabits per second.        
    Six of those cameras face forward, one faces the rear, and one              
    is mounted on a pan-tilt unit programmed to turn and look to the          
    left and to the right.


UPDATE Oct 31, 2007
    Alice failed to qualify for the DARPA Grand Challenge this year.
    http://gc.caltech.edu