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Updated December 2004
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When: December 13, 2004 at 6:30 PM
What: DARPA Grand Challenge presentation
Who: Grayson Randall, Grand Challenge participant and team leader
Where: Progress Energy office building on Military Cutoff (1542 Military Cutoff)
Food Charge: $2.00 for IEEE Members; $5.00 for non-members.
RSVP: Required. Please RSVP with the number attending via email by replying to
Format:The doors open at 6:30 for a casual supper of pizza, snacks, soda and socializing. Then at 7:00 PM, Grayson will present. The meeting should be over by 8:30 PM.
About the DARPA Grand Challenge:
The DARPA Grand Challenge is a 175 mile desert race with fully autonomous vehicles. These vehicles must traverse the desert course without any human intervention within a 10 hour time limit. The prize for completing the course within the time limit is $2 million. Last year, of the 25 vehicles that qualified, the best result was a 7 mile run. Insight Racing is a Raleigh, NC based team that qualified for the 2004 race and is continuing to develop a vehicle for the 2005 race. Grayson Randall, team leader, will present an overview of the project and will speak about the technical problems that need to be overcome to compete in such a project. The presentation has lots of pictures and video of the vehicle in operation.
About the speaker:
Grayson Randall graduated from Parks College of St. Louis University with a degree in aerospace engineering. He spent 5 years working for Singer Link, a flight simulation company, where he was involved in building aircraft simulators for both military and commercial aircraft. Grayson is currently employed at IBM where he has been involved for 23 years in manufacturing automation, digital video processing, network processors, and currently PowerPC processor development. He has 8 patents and a number of published articles. Grayson is chairman of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Chapter for Eastern North Carolina and is a 5th year mentor for the Southeast Raleigh High School FIRST Robotics team.
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