Junior

Can you hear the servos of robots everywhere zipping around in excitement? Urban Challenge is nearing! DARPA has begun making site visits to decide what teams will make the semi-finals of the much anticipated robot competition. During these site-visits, the robot cars will be put through a test course with a four-way intersection and moving traffic. DARPA will wrap up the visits around July 20 and announce, on August 10, the 30 semi-finalists and location for the big event.

Stanford's Junior seemed to have passed the test last Thursday. Junior has 8 LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems for distance measurement and path detection. Junior's positioning system is accurate to about 30cm.