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This lecture presents an overview of Alice, an autonomous vehicle built by Caltech undergraduates to participate in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge.  Starting with the high level architecture, we describe some of the design choices that were made in the networked control systems (NCS) architecture and was as summarize the basic operation of the major software modules that are used to implement Alice's autonomous control system.
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== Lecture Materials ==
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* [[Media:L1-2_alice.pdf|Lecture: Alice: A Networked Control System for Autonomous Driving]]
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* [http://gc.caltech.edu/wiki/index.php/JFR05_Paper Alice: An Information-Rich Autonomous Vehicle
for High-Speed Desert Navigation], Cremean et al.  ''Journal of Field Robotics'', 2005 (submitted). This article provides an overview of Alice's architecture and operation.  The link takes you to a page on the Team Caltech wiki, with links to additional documentation. Anyone considering working on a project using Alice should read this article.


== Additional Resources ==
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* [http://team.caltech.edu Team Caltech homepage] - contains movies and other information about the project
* [http://gc.caltech.edu/wiki Grand Challenge wiki] - detailed information about Alice, including documentation on hardware and software

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This lecture presents an overview of Alice, an autonomous vehicle built by Caltech undergraduates to participate in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Starting with the high level architecture, we describe some of the design choices that were made in the networked control systems (NCS) architecture and was as summarize the basic operation of the major software modules that are used to implement Alice's autonomous control system.

Lecture Materials

Reading

for High-Speed Desert Navigation], Cremean et al. Journal of Field Robotics, 2005 (submitted). This article provides an overview of Alice's architecture and operation. The link takes you to a page on the Team Caltech wiki, with links to additional documentation. Anyone considering working on a project using Alice should read this article.

Additional Resources

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