Race Day, 2000! - The SCS Autonomous Buggy rolled in an exhibition heat in the Spring, 2000 Carnival on Saturday, April 15. The idea of an autonomous, robotic buggy was conceived 10 years ago. This effort is the culmination of a year of hard work by Arne Suppe (for his undergrad thesis), Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, and Maayan Roth (and prior work in 1996 by Matt White).

In a trial run on race day morning, the SCS Autonomous Buggy successfully navigated the buggy course until just before the monument. Unfortunately, when the exhibition heat was run later that morning, some line-tracking problems developed which caused us to manually stop the buggy. We remain confident that we WILL navigate the entire course next Carnival. Pictures below.

2001 update - unfortunately race day dawned bleak and gray, ultimately making good on its dismal promise by raining shortly after the women's finals were run. We look forward to sunnier skies in 2002...

Pre-race and sans fiberglass shell:

Race day preparations:

An unnamed advisor pushing Hill 2!

Freeroll!

Stopped short (manually)!

The aftermath...

The team, undaunted...

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