On Sunday, I was actually pretty girly and went out shopping with Stephanie, supposedly for stuff for Halloween and our upcoming conference. I was good and didn’t buy much, although I didn’t find the sort of shirt I wanted for my costume. I’ll just have to make do, I think. That evening I headed up the hill to Joe’s place to hang out, and, on the way, I noticed that the sunset was lighting some clouds up beautifully, so I stopped to take some pictures.
Monday I woke up feeling sick, but I’m at a point in the semester where I can’t afford to stop or slow down, so I worked a full day anyway (and then came home and worked some more). The notes my drugs are sitting from my turbulence class, where I have an exam later this week.
Currently teams from both my department here at Cornell and my alma mater, Case Western, are competing in the National Qualifying Exam for the DARPA Urban Challenge for which teams have built vehicles that will compete in completing a race in an urban traffic-like environment without a human driver. This means the robot has to not only get from Point A to Point B entirely without human direction, but must do so while following all the rules of the road and dealing with traffic – including human drivers as well as other autonomous ones.
It’s a pretty tall order.
I’ve been following TeamCASE closely through their blog, but TGDaily also has video (the second one) of their robot, Dexter, in part of the NQE where the robot has to perform left turns with traffic. Dexter does fabulously–exactly what I would expect such a great team of engineers and computer scientists behind him! Go TeamCASE and Cornell!
Published on
29 October 2007 in
Journal.
Tags: ego.
It’s an awful thing to wake up sick and know that you can neither stay home nor come home early in order to get better before you get worse.
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