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[Colleen Wilcox <cwilcox@rsmas.miami.edu>]

Good morning,

Please take a look at the following information on this talk that will be taking place today on main campus at 3:15 PM in MEA 202.  

Thank you!

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Professor John Leonard
Department of Mechanical Engineering and CSAIL
MIT
Cambridge, MA

Thursday January 21, 2010
3:15PM-4:30PM
MEA 202


Title:     A Retrospective Look at the DARPA Urban Challenge

Abstract:

This talk will review Team MIT's performance in the 2007 DARPA Urban
Challenge (DUC), which was held in October and November, 2007, in
Victorville, CA.  MIT was one of thirty five teams that participated
in the DUC national qualifying event (NQE), and was one of eleven
teams to qualify for the Urban Challenge final event based on our
performance in NQE.  Our team was one of six teams to complete the
race, finishing in fourth place.  We will review the design of our
autonomous vehicle, Talos, a Land Rover LR3 equipped with a diverse
range of lidar, vision, radar, and navigation sensors connected to a
powerful blade cluster computer system.  Our vehicle employed novel
algorithmic approaches to perception, planning and control for the
challenging task of autonomous driving in uncertain, dynamic
environments.  The performance of our system in the NQE and race
events will be reviewed, and compared with approaches taken by several
other teams.  Several follow-on research projects arising from our
effort will be described.

Joint work with Matt Antone, David Barrett, Mitch Berger, Ryan
Buckley, Stefan Campbell, Alexander Epstein, Gaston Fiore, Luke
Fletcher, Emilio Frazzoli, Robert Galejs, Jonathan How, Albert Huang,
Karl Iagnemma, Troy Jones, Sertac Karaman, Olivier Koch, Siddhartha
Krishnamurthy, Yoshi Kuwata, Keoni Maheloni, David Moore, Katy Moyer,
Edwin Olson, Steve Peters, Stephen Proulx, Nicholas Roy, Daniela Rus,
Chris Sanders, Seth Teller, Justin Teo, Robert Truax, Matthew Walter,
and Jonathan Williams.

For more information, see http://grandchallenge.mit.edu

Bio: John J. Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
at MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).  His research addresses the problems
of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots.  He holds the
degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Science from the
University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science
from the University of Oxford (1994).

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