A side note: Darpa grand challenge car video

CarTV.com covered the DARPA grand challenge event from start to finish. I watched part 2 . It was fun.

Autonomous vehicles:DARPA grandchallenge

Stanford won the 2005 race (won cash prize of 2 million) and 5 vehicles finished the target route.


Now DARPA moved the 2006 race to urban setting.

Online book for intelligent control:An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control

Here is a book for intelligent control "An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control" edited by Edited byPanos J. Antsaklis and Kevin M. Passino.

Fault tolerant control

Fault tolerant control is an interesting area. The basic question we asked in FTC research is how to design a system which can sustain upto some degree of faults. Here is the link to a website which has list of major publications, which I found via yahoo search.

Fujitsu Ten Enhances CRAMAS for Hybrid Vehicle ECUs

Here is the news.