Winner of DARPA Robotic Vehicle Race Has NovAtel GPS Onboard
25 Ottobre 2005 - 12:30AM
Business Wire
NovAtel Inc. (NASDAQ:NGPS), a precise positioning technology
company, is pleased to announce that the winning team completing
the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) Grand Challenge, an unmanned robotic vehicle race, used
NovAtel GPS technology. The race, which covered a 132-mile course
in the Mojave Desert, made a great leap forward for the development
of autonomous ground vehicle technology. It proved that these
vehicles can cover long distances over difficult terrain and within
a specified timeframe - all key elements towards bringing this
technology into viable applications. The DARPA Grand Challenge
winner was Stanford University's "Stanley". This robotic vehicle
completed the course in the shortest period of time, averaging
speeds of 19.1 mph. Stanley completed the race using NovAtel's
Propak(R)LBplus with Omnistar HP Service for precise positioning
data. The ProPak-LBplus GPS receiver combines GPS positioning with
integrated access to OmniSTAR L-band signals, which provide various
types of correction data to deliver autonomous sub-meter to
decimeter level accuracy worldwide. "Our NovAtel receiver provided
us with the most consistent accuracy and fastest reacquisition time
of the different GPS solutions we tried. This was essential for
Stanley's smooth performance coming out of GPS blackouts caused by
underpasses and tunnels along the Grand Challenge course," said
Mike Montemerlo of the Stanford Racing team. According to Graham
Purves, NovAtel's Vice President of Sales, "We congratulate the
Stanford team on their success in the DARPA Grand Challenge.
NovAtel's GPS technology with integrated Omnistar service, as
featured in our ProPak-LB family of products, has been a winning
combination for many of our customers in commercial and military
unmanned system applications. With our latest generation of OEMV
GPS receivers, we have continued to improve L-Band functionality by
integrating it into our new ASIC design. As a result, system
designers will see additional benefits including reduced hardware,
size, cost and complexity." About Stanford Racing Team The Stanford
Racing Team (www.stanfordracing.org) developed Stanley, an
autonomous ground vehicle, to compete in the 2005 Grand Challenge
sponsored by the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency (DARPA). Stanley made history October 8, 2005 by
completing a difficult 132-mile desert terrain course in less than
seven hours. The team drew upon Stanford's artificial intelligence
expertise and groundbreaking software and techniques for
environment perception and stable vehicle control. Behind the
effort were more than 30 Stanford engineering faculty and students
from computer science, mechanical engineering, aeronautics and
astronautics, and management science and engineering departments.
Rounding out the team were engineers from the Volkswagen
Electronics Research Lab and members of early stage venture capital
firm MDV-Mohr, Davidow Ventures. Other primary team supporters
included Red Bull and Android. About NovAtel Inc. NovAtel designs,
markets and sells high-precision GPS and other positioning
components and sub-systems used in a wide variety of commercial
applications principally in the aviation, geomatics (surveying and
mapping), mining, precision agriculture, marine and defence
industries. NovAtel's solutions combine hardware, such as receivers
and antennas, with software to enable its customers to fully
integrate the Company's high-precision GPS technology into their
respective products and systems. NovAtel, an ISO 9001 certified
company, is focused on supplying core high-precision positioning
technology to OEMs and system integrators who build systems for
various end market applications. For more information, visit
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