National Qualification Event (NQE)
Of the original 195 applicants, initially 40 teams were selected to participate in the National Qualification Event (NQE). Three teams were added on Aug. 23, 2005 to the semi-finalist 40 teams who were selected from site visits, sending 43 teams to the NQE.
The National Qualification Event was held at California Speedway in Fontana from September 27 through October 5. The results of the NQE were used to cut the 43 teams down to 23 for the race on October 8.
Vehicle performances at the NQE were judged by (1) elapsed time to complete the course; (2) number of obstacles successfully passed without contact; (3) number of gates successfully passed. DARPA did not reveal the relative importance of these three factors. DARPA's final ranking of the vehicles, for purposes of pole position in the Grand Challenge Event (GCE), may have been partly subjective.
The results of the 2005 DARPA NQEs are shown below sorted top to bottom by runs completed and gates passed, compiled from DARPA's published NQE results. This ordering does not correspond to DARPA's ranking of team performance. (For example, this ordering does not reflect speed as an element of performance.) Teams highlighted in green were the teams that DARPA selected to participate in the Grand Challenge desert race.
| Team name | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Finishes | Total gates | Desert race participant | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Gates | Obstacles | Time | Gates | Obstacles | Time | Gates | Obstacles | Time | Gates | Obstacles | ||||
| Stanford | 10 | 50 | 4 | 9 | 50 | 4 | 11 | 50 | 5 | 11 | 50 | 5 | 4 | 200 | Yes |
| Red Team Too | 10 | 47 | 3 | 9 | 50 | 4 | 10 | 50 | 4 | 10 | 50 | 5 | 4 | 197 | Yes |
| Red Team | 9 | 47 | 4 | 10 | 48 | 5 | 11 | 49 | 5 | 9 | 50 | 4 | 4 | 194 | Yes |
| Terramax | 27 | 47 | 3 | 22 | 47 | 4 | 21 | 49 | 4 | 25 | 50 | 3 | 4 | 193 | Yes |
| Axion | 15 | 36 | 5 | 16 | 40 | 4 | 12 | 40 | 2 | 12 | 41 | 3 | 4 | 157 | Yes |
| IVST | x | 44 | 2 | 11 | 44 | 3 | 8 | 47 | 4 | 11 | 49 | 4 | 3 | 184 | Yes |
| Sciautionics | x | 22 | 1 | 16 | 46 | 4 | 14 | 48 | 4 | 14 | 48 | 5 | 3 | 164 | Yes |
| Buckeyes | x | 10 | 0 | 21 | 49 | 4 | 16 | 49 | 4 | 25 | 50 | 4 | 3 | 158 | Yes |
| Caltech | x | 21 | 0 | 16 | 44 | 5 | 12 | 44 | 4 | 16 | 49 | 5 | 3 | 158 | Yes |
| Cornell | x | 9 | 0 | 10 | 49 | 4 | 12 | 50 | 4 | 12 | 50 | 5 | 3 | 158 | Yes |
| VA Tech Rocky | x | 9 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 4 | 15 | 49 | 5 | 15 | 49 | 5 | 3 | 155 | Yes |
| Mojavaton | x | 20 | 1 | x | 30 | 1 | 15 | 47 | 2 | 16 | 48 | 2 | 2 | 145 | Yes |
| ENSCO | x | 19 | 0 | x | 21 | 0 | 13 | 44 | 4 | 15 | 50 | 4 | 2 | 134 | Yes |
| CIMAR | x | 9 | 0 | x | 30 | 1 | 15 | 46 | 4 | 13 | 47 | 3 | 2 | 132 | Yes |
| Golem | x | 0 | 0 | x | 31 | 1 | 9 | 49 | 4 | 12 | 50 | 5 | 2 | 130 | Yes |
| Insight Racing | x | 12 | 0 | x | 17 | 0 | 29 | 47 | 4 | 17 | 49 | 5 | 2 | 125 | Yes |
| DAD | x | 10 | 0 | x | 24 | 0 | 10 | 42 | 4 | 11 | 44 | 4 | 2 | 120 | Yes |
| MonsterMoto | x | 0 | 0 | x | 12 | 0 | 14 | 47 | 5 | 13 | 49 | 5 | 2 | 108 | Yes |
| Princeton | x | 0 | 0 | x | 9 | 0 | 13 | 48 | 4 | 12 | 50 | 5 | 2 | 107 | Yes |
| Team Jefferson | x | 10 | 0 | x | 16 | 0 | x | 36 | 1 | 18 | 49 | 5 | 1 | 111 | No |
| CajunBot | x | 0 | 0 | x | 18 | 0 | x | 29 | 1 | 16 | 49 | 4 | 1 | 96 | Yes |
| Austin | x | 5 | 0 | x | 21 | 0 | x | 22 | 0 | 52 | 45 | 4 | 1 | 93 | No |
| Grey Team | x | 2 | 0 | x | 14 | 0 | x | 15 | 0 | 16 | 48 | 5 | 1 | 79 | Yes |
| UCF | x | 6 | 0 | x | 8 | 0 | x | 17 | 0 | 28 | 47 | 5 | 1 | 78 | No |
| Va Tech GC Team | x | 0 | 0 | x | 5 | 0 | x | 16 | 0 | 17 | 44 | 3 | 1 | 65 | Yes |
| Banzai | x | 0 | 0 | x | 6 | 0 | x | 16 | 1 | 21 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 61 | No |
| Mitre | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 10 | 0 | 21 | 44 | 5 | 1 | 54 | Yes |
| AION | x | 1 | 0 | x | 3 | 0 | x | 8 | 0 | 35 | 33 | 3 | 1 | 45 | No |
| Juggernaut | x | 8 | 0 | x | 15 | 0 | x | 17 | 0 | x | 36 | 1 | 0 | 76 | No |
| AI Motovators | x | 8 | 0 | x | 14 | 0 | x | 16 | 0 | x | 33 | 2 | 0 | 71 | No |
| Blue Team | x | 6 | 0 | x | 13 | 0 | x | 16 | 1 | x | 20 | 1 | 0 | 55 | No |
| Indy Robot Racing | x | 6 | 0 | x | 12 | 1 | x | 14 | 0 | x | 23 | 0 | 0 | 55 | No |
| Tormenta | x | 4 | 0 | x | 10 | 0 | x | 15 | 0 | x | 20 | 0 | 0 | 49 | No |
| CyberRider | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 1 | 0 | x | 36 | 2 | 0 | 37 | No |
| Overbot | x | 4 | 0 | x | 6 | 0 | x | 10 | 0 | x | 11 | 0 | 0 | 31 | No |
| Terra Engineering | x | 0 | 0 | x | 6 | 0 | x | 7 | 0 | x | 14 | 0 | 0 | 27 | No |
| AVS | x | 0 | 0 | x | 3 | 0 | x | 7 | 0 | x | 16 | 0 | 0 | 26 | No |
| Autonosys | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 9 | 0 | x | 14 | 0 | 0 | 23 | No |
| BJB Engineering | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 2 | 0 | x | 13 | 0 | 0 | 15 | No |
| PVHS | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | No |
| Indiana Robotic Nav | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | No |
| Oregon Wave | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | No |
| Underdawg | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | No |
There were four NQE runs. The above four major columns are sorted from worst to best runs of each team. "Time" signifies the time in minutes for a completed run and "x" indicates an incomplete run. "Gates" indicates the number of gates along the track that were passed (there were 50 total per run). "Obstacles" indicates the number of obstacles on the track that were passed (there were 5 total per run). "Finishes" indicates the total number of runs that the team successfully completed (there were 4 runs total). "Total Gates" indicates the total number of gates that the team successfully passed. The teams are sorted from top to bottom according to runs completed and then by total gates passed. Teams indicated as a "desert race participant" are those teams invited by DARPA to participate in the Grand Challenge desert race. Source data
For the first and second run, only 4 obstacles were present whereas for the third and fourth runs 5 obstacles were present. The NQE results presented in the table above show each team's runs sorted left to right from their worst run to their best run in order to better illustrate relative ranking (i.e. not in order of the actual run sequence).
On October 6, the selected teams transported their robots to the starting location. On October 7 the teams had a day to fix any portions of the robots broken in the course of transportation prior to the actual race.
Read more about this topic: DARPA Grand Challenge (2005)
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