DARPA Grand Challenge (2005) - Race Participants

Race Participants

#	Vehicle	Team Name	Team Home	Time Taken (h:m)	Result
1.	Stanley	Stanford Racing Team	Stanford University, Palo Alto, California	6:54	First place
2.	Sandstorm	Red Team	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	7:05	Second place
3.	H1ghlander	Red Team Too	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	7:14	Third place
4.	Kat-5	Team Gray	The Gray Insurance Company, Metairie, Louisiana	7:30	Fourth place
5.	TerraMax	Team TerraMax	Oshkosh Truck Corporation, Oshkosh, Wisconsin	12:51	Over 10 hour limit, fifth place
6.	DEXTER	Team Ensco	Ensco, Springfield, Virginia	DNF	Out of race at 81 miles; tire blowout after going off-course due to bent frame
7.	Spirit	Axion Racing	Westlake Village, California	DNF	Out of race at 66 miles; got stuck in sand, possibly after mechanical failure in suspension
8.	Cliff	Virginia Tech Grand Challenge Team	Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia	DNF	Out of race at 44 miles due to vehicle motor mechanical problems.
9.	Rocky	Virginia Tech Team Rocky	Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia	DNF	Out of race at 39 miles; a steep hill caused the oil in its generator to slosh around. The generator's low-oil sensor went off, cutting power to computers.
10.	ION	Desert Buckeyes	Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio	DNF	Out of race at 29 miles
11.	DAD	Team DAD	Digital Auto Drive/Velodyne Acoustics, Morgan Hill, California	DNF	Out of race at 26 miles; LIDAR scanner failed, loose wire due to vibration.
12.	Desert Rat	Insight Racing	North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina	DNF	Out of race at 26 miles
13.	Xboxx	Mojavaton	Grand Junction, Colorado	DNF	Out of race at 23.5 miles
14.	Golem 2	The Golem Group/UCLA	Los Angeles, California	DNF	Out of race at 22 miles; software bug crashed main computer causing 60 mph rampage
15.	CajunBot	Team Cajunbot	University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana	DNF	Out of race at 17 miles; The motor on the brake actuator burned out when vehicle was paused for about fifty minutes.
16.	RASCAL	SciAutonics/Auburn Engineering	Thousand Oaks, California	DNF	Out of race at 16 miles; software problems
17.	Desert Tortoise	Intelligent Vehicle Safety Technologies	Littleton, Colorado	DNF	Out of race at 14 miles, instability in steering controller caused robot to drive offroad for a power pole.
18.	NaviGATOR	Team CIMAR	University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida	DNF	Out of race at 14 miles; faulty reporting of GPS accuracy caused robot to drive into a bush, where a bug in "blocked path" logic left vehicle unable to recover.
19.	Prospect Eleven	Princeton University	Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey	DNF	Out of race at 10 miles. A code bug slowed down steering and throttle control, sending the robot looping in circles and narrowly missing a clump of reporters.
20.	Spider	Team Cornell	Cornell University, Ithaca, New York	DNF	Out of race at 9 miles; when pause applied, rolled up against a guard rail; when unpaused, could not back away from rail since it had no functional backing software
21.	Alice	Team Caltech	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California	DNF	Out of race at 8 miles; after GPS reacquisition, veered over barrier and towards media
22.	JackBot	MonsterMoto	Cedar Park, Texas	DNF	Out of race at 7 miles
23.	The Meteor	Mitre Meteorites	MITRE, McLean, Virginia	DNF	Out of race at 1 mile; dust interfered with sensors causing false positive obstacle detection

DNF = Did Not Finish

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