1998 International ground robotics vehicle competition robotics competition corner

✍ Scribed by Robin R. Murphy

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 366 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0921-8890
• DOI: 10.1016/s0921-8890(99)80014-1

✦ Synopsis

The 1998 International Ground Robotics Vehicle Competition (IGVC), also known as the Unmanned Ground Robotics Competition, highlighted issues in vision-based navigation, especially the impact of weather. The annual event was sponsored this year by the International Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems (AUVS), Oakland University, US Army TACOM, and United Defense. The objective of the IGVC is to design, construct, and program a fully autonomous unmanned ground vehicle to navigate an outdoor obstacle course within a time limit while staying within a 5 mile per hour speed limit. The obstacle course is a reasonable approximation of the challenges posed by highway driving.

The competition offers $10,000 in prizes to the top three teams based on performance (farthest distance in shortest time, with penalties applied if the vehicle collides with an obstacle or veers out of bounds).