Team Description* |
Team Oshkosh
(formerly Team TerraMax™) will once again field a DARPA
Challenge team with the dedication and expertise to take
TerraMax™ to the performance level needed for the DARPA
Urban Challenge.
Team Oshkosh understands the additional hurdles we must
overcome by working with vehicles the size of TerraMax™,
but feel it is the most relevant platform for
development of autonomous systems which focus on
providing logistics support. Team Oshkosh will again
utilize a vehicle based on the U.S. Marine Corps MTVR
that provides a majority of the logistics support for
the Marine Corps. The intention is to optimize the
autonomous system design such that it can be supplied in
kit form. With Team Oshkosh, all design and program
decisions are made with not only the Urban Challenge
goal in mind, but eventual fielding objectives as well.
Oshkosh Truck will modify the vehicle to optimize the
control-by-wire systems and upgrade to a superior
low-level control strategy. Improvements since the last
Grand Challenge have been identified and will be
implemented. Modifications to the vehicle chassis will
provide a better dynamic capability in the urban
environment.
Teledyne Scientific Company (formerly Rockwell
Scientific Company) was a major contributor to Team
TerraMax’s™ success in the last Grand Challenge with
much of the software generated around their unique and
high performance algorithms. The team will again rely on
them to support mission and path planning, and much of
the vehicle’s high level control and programming. Auburn
University also returns to provide some of the same
support from last year in working to provide a well
thought out and robust GPS/IMU package capable for the
task of urban operations.
We are excited to bring to the urban environment our
sensor capabilities stemming from our long relationships
with the University of Parma and IBEO. They will be
providing exclusive vision system and LIDAR solutions
that they have been developing in Europe for many years
with focus on the challenges the DARPA Urban Challenge
presents. |
