Junior (vehicle)
Junior is a self-driving car from the Stanford Racing Team at Stanford University , which was the first car to finish the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 and came second overall. Junior thus succeeded the Stanley car within the Stanford Racing Team, which won the DARPA Grand Challenge in 2005 . Junior was developed especially for the competition under the direction of computer science professor Sebastian Thrun .
Junior is a modified Volkswagen Passat , built in 2006. The vehicle was equipped with GPS sensors, odometers , inertial sensors and several LIDAR sensors from Sick AG and RADAR from Bosch for perception of the surroundings .
The AI software from Junior's own development of the Stanford Racing Team and ran on an eight-core server.
Seven of this type drove through California over a year . During this time, they have covered over 1,000 miles (approx. 1,600 km) without human intervention and 140,000 miles (225,000 km) with light interference and accident-free. It drove through Lombard Street itself without causing an accident.
Web links
- Junior general (PDF; 182 kB; English)
- Data sheet for Junior (PDF; 310 kB; English)
- Stanford Racing Team (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Stanford Racing Team: All about Junior. (PDF; 317 kB) Wired, October 26, 2007, accessed on May 29, 2009 .
- ↑ Google Street Car - a robot controls. Retrieved March 31, 2011 .