Comments on: Autonomous ATV

By: studioeng

studioeng — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:42:30 +0000

‘If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour. You’re gunna see some serious shit!’

By: ATV

ATV — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:20:45 +0000

I got a laugh out of the guy controlling it too, why the helmet anyway, ATV safety to the extreme ? Great article.

By: KamiKaDze

KamiKaDze — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:18:19 +0000

Thank`s =)

By: grizball

grizball — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:08:46 +0000

@ dan: safety first! hahahaha

By: dan

dan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:58:12 +0000

I just love the fact that the guy remote controlling it is wearing a helmet!

By: Paul G

Paul G — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:33:30 +0000

If anyone on that team has a dog, the absolutely HAVE to train it to sit on the ATV whilst its in motion.
Just think of the other road users faces when the see a dog pull up alongside them at an intersection.

By: engrforever

engrforever — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:16:28 +0000

Roll or fly! It is all about the endless nights and lines of code at the end of the day!

Though this not some dream anymore, it is certainly a fun project we are getting to work on at UNC CHARLOTTE. We have a few people who also competed in the Urban Challenge.

Lets see what happens next ;)

By: grey

grey — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:50:32 +0000

Wow, I wish my school had that much parking.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:30:01 +0000

this team’s about 6 years late. google “darpa grand challenge spirit of las vegas” for an autonomous honda atv with GPS, video, etc sensors.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:38:07 +0000

Maybe some of you people should change the way you think of hackaday. I enjoy when they post projects that are on-going. It gives me a chance to follow them. Sure people have done this and much more before, but that’s the past and it’s interesting to see what else is going on. Perhaps they will do something different or interesting.

It’s not everyday that an amazing project is completed that’s never been done before, so why hope for that? Hackaday has done a nice job compiling project pages and even doing their own segments, I think the page is just as good as ever.

By: michiru

michiru — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:48:03 +0000

someone already demonstrated an autonomous motorbike on youtube, a lot more impressive than a 4 wheel ATV that doesn’t need active balancing to stay up. hackaday’s losing luster again.

By: Red

Red — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:02:33 +0000

Nothing unique here. Many of the Darpa grand challenge schools/groups started with atv level vehicles or use them for other projects in their research divisions.

By: David

David — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:06:06 +0000

This is definitely pretty cool, but not as cool as a remote control Delorean.

By: jrocky

jrocky — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:15:47 +0000

Sounds kind of like the Army Crusader project where the ammunition trailer could detach from the tank and be controlled remotely to return to the ammo supply depot and return to the tank in the field. But that project was dumped by G.W. Bush shorty after starting his first presidential term.

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:08:46 +0000

Yeah I know someone who has an autonomous car, although as of yet it has a driver, but once he gets rich and the technology is there he’ll add lidar and what not, and it already has GPS so it’s more advanced than this..
(internet-required note: I’m being sarcastic.)