The 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge [electronic resource] : The Great Robot Race / edited by Martin Buehler, Karl Iagnemma, Sanjiv Singh.

Stanley: The Robot That Won the DARPA Grand Challenge -- A Robust Approach to High-Speed Navigation for Unrehearsed Desert Terrain -- KAT-5: Robust Systems for Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Challenging and Unknown Terrain -- The TerraMax Autonomous Vehicle -- Virginia Tech’s Twin Contenders: A Comparative Study of Reactive and Deliberative Navigation -- Intelligent Off-Road Navigation Algorithms and Strategies of Team Desert Buckeyes in the DARPA Grand Challenge ’05 -- The Golem Group / UCLA Autonomous Ground Vehicle in the DARPA Grand Challenge -- CajunBot: Architecture and Algorithms -- SciAutonics-Auburn Engineering’s Low Cost High Speed ATV for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge -- Team CIMAR’s NaviGATOR: An Unmanned Ground Vehicle for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge -- Prospect Eleven: Princeton University’s Entry in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge -- Cornell University’s 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge Entry -- A Mixture-Model Based Algorithm for Real-Time Terrain Estimation -- Alice: An Information-Rich Autonomous Vehicle for High-Speed Desert Navigation -- MITRE Meteor: An Off-Road Autonomous Vehicle for DARPA’s Grand Challenge.

At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the new series of Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field. The volume edited by Martin Buehler, Karl Iagnemma and Sanjiv Singh presents a unique and extensive collection of the scientific results by the teams which took part into the DARPA Grand Challenge in October 2005 in the Nevada desert. This event reached an incredible peak of popularity in the media, the race of the century like someone called it! The Grand Challenge demonstrated the fast growing progress - ward the development of robotics technology, as it showed the feasibility of using mobile robots operating autonomously in real world scenarios.