User:Ceyockey/AutonomousCar

Vehicles for roads

 * Google driverless car, with a test fleet of autonomous vehicles that as of August 2012 has driven 300000 mi.
 * The €800 million EC EUREKA Prometheus Project on autonomous vehicles (1987–1995). Among its culmination points were the twin robot vehicles VITA-2 and VaMP of Daimler-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns, driving long distances  in heavy traffic (see  above).
 * The VIAC Challenge, in which 4 vehicles drove from Italy to China on a 13000 km trip with only limited occasions requiring human intervention, such as in the Moscow traffic jams and when passing toll stations. This is the longest-ever trip by an unmanned vehicle.
 * The third competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge held in November 2007. 53 teams qualified initially, but after a series of qualifying rounds, only eleven teams entered the final race.  Of these, six teams completed navigating through the  non-populated urban environment, and the Carnegie Mellon University team won the $2 million prize.
 * The ARGO vehicle (see above) is the predecessor of the BRAiVE vehicle, both from the University of Parma's VisLab. Argo was developed in 1996 and demonstrated to the world in 1998; BRAiVE was developed in 2008 and firstly demonstrated in 2009 at the IEEE IV conference in Xi'an, China.
 * Stanford Racing Team's Junior car is an autonomous driverless car for paved roads. It is intended for civilian use.
 * Team CIMAR's NaviGator is one such vehicle developed at University of Florida which is capable of driving on its own and will feature new features which can also be adopted to make conventional navigation better.
 * The Volkswagen Golf GTI 53+1 is a modified Volkswagen Golf GTI capable of autonomous driving. The Golf GTI 53+1 features an implemented system that can be integrated into any car. This system is based around the MicroAutoBox from dSpace. This, as it was intended to test VW hardware without a human driver (for consistent test results).
 * The Audi TTS Pikes Peak is a modified Audi TTS, working entirely on GPS, and thus without additional sensors. The car was designed by Burkhard Huhnke of Volkswagen Research.
 * Stadtpilot, Technical University Braunschweig
 * AutoNOMOS - part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Freie Universität Berlin

Off road vehicles
There are four clusters of activity related to free-ranging off-road cars, most of these military-oriented.


 * US military DARPA Grand Challenge - In 2002, the US Department of Defense announced a "Grand Challenge," for US-based teams to produce a vehicle that could autonomously navigate and reach a target in the desert of the southwestern USA. The first competition was held in March 2004, for a prize of $1 million. Not one of the 25 entrants completed the course. In the second competition, held in October 2005, five different teams completed the 135 mi course, and the Stanford University team won the $2 million prize.  The third competition was held in November 2007, with six driverless vehicles completing a 55 mi course for a $3.5 million dollar prize.


 * European Land-Robot Trial (ELROB) - The German Department of Defense held an exhibition trade show (ELROB) for demonstrating automated vehicles in May 2006. The event included various military automated and remotely operated robots, for various military uses.  In August 2007 a civilian version of the event was  held in Switzerland.


 * Israel has significant research efforts to develop a fully automated border-patrol vehicle. This originated with its success with Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles, and following the construction of the Israeli West Bank barrier.  Two projects, by Elbit Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries are both based on the locally produced Armored "Tomcar" and have the specific purpose of patrolling barrier fences against intrusions.


 * Korean Autonomous Vehicle Competition (AVC) - In November 2010, Hyundai Kia Automotive Group first organized this competition, for a winning prize-money of $100 thousand, and the Hanyang University A1 team won the $100 thousand prize.