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Discuss “Tartan Racing to compete in 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge”

Navigating the urban jungle just got a whole new meaning for one Carnegie Mellon team. The University recently announced its upcoming participation in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Urban Challenge, to be held in November 2007.

Past DARPA challenges required competitors to create an autonomous vehicle that could race across the desert with other teams’ vehicles.

Research professor William “Red” Whittaker heads Tartan Racing, the team of Carnegie Mellon researchers who will participate in the competition.

Whittaker is a member of the Robotics Institute and no stranger to DARPA competitions. In fact, Carnegie Mellon competed in two of DARPA’s previous challenges under Whittaker’s leadership.

But the 2007 Grand...

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