DARPA Grand Challenge winning team
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The DARPA Grand Challenge winning team was the group of researchers and engineers, led by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford, whose autonomous vehicle "Stanley" successfully completed the 2005 desert race and became a landmark achievement in self-driving car development.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| DARPA Grand Challenge winning team canonical | 1 |
| Stanford autonomous vehicle projects | 1 |
| Stanford self-driving car team | 1 |
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Target entity: DARPA Grand Challenge winning team Context triple: [Sebastian Thrun, notableProject, DARPA Grand Challenge winning team]
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DARPA Grand Challenge
The DARPA Grand Challenge was a series of autonomous vehicle competitions in the 2000s that catalyzed major advances in self-driving car technology and robotics research.
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Centennial Challenges Program
The Centennial Challenges Program is a NASA initiative that uses prize competitions to spur innovation in space and related technologies by engaging non-traditional and independent inventors.
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DARPA Robotics Challenge
The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a high-profile international competition that pushed the development of advanced humanoid robots capable of performing complex disaster-response tasks in environments designed for humans.
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Man Vehicle Laboratory
Man Vehicle Laboratory is an MIT research lab focused on human factors, human–machine interaction, and human performance in aerospace and other complex vehicle systems.
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Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a $10 million competition that spurred private spaceflight by rewarding the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: DARPA Grand Challenge winning team Target entity description: The DARPA Grand Challenge winning team was the group of researchers and engineers, led by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford, whose autonomous vehicle "Stanley" successfully completed the 2005 desert race and became a landmark achievement in self-driving car development.
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A.
DARPA Grand Challenge
The DARPA Grand Challenge was a series of autonomous vehicle competitions in the 2000s that catalyzed major advances in self-driving car technology and robotics research.
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B.
Centennial Challenges Program
The Centennial Challenges Program is a NASA initiative that uses prize competitions to spur innovation in space and related technologies by engaging non-traditional and independent inventors.
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C.
DARPA Robotics Challenge
The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a high-profile international competition that pushed the development of advanced humanoid robots capable of performing complex disaster-response tasks in environments designed for humans.
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D.
Man Vehicle Laboratory
Man Vehicle Laboratory is an MIT research lab focused on human factors, human–machine interaction, and human performance in aerospace and other complex vehicle systems.
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E.
Ansari X Prize
The Ansari X Prize was a $10 million competition that spurred private spaceflight by rewarding the first non-government organization to launch a reusable crewed spacecraft into space twice within two weeks.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autonomous vehicle research group
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engineering team ⓘ research team ⓘ |
| achievement | First team to complete the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge course ⓘ |
| affiliation | Stanford University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedInstitution |
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NERFINISHED
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Stanford School of Engineering NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| award | Winner of 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge ⓘ |
| competition | DARPA Grand Challenge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| competitionGoal | develop autonomous ground vehicles capable of navigating desert terrain ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| distanceCompleted | approximately 132 miles ⓘ |
| editionWon | 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| field |
artificial intelligence
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autonomous vehicles ⓘ robotics ⓘ |
| influenced |
Google self-driving car project
NERFINISHED
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Waymo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leader | Sebastian Thrun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legacy | demonstrated practical feasibility of autonomous driving in challenging environments ⓘ |
| locationOfEvent | Mojave Desert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| member |
Stanford Racing Team
NERFINISHED
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Stanley hardware team ⓘ Stanley software team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | landmark achievement in self-driving car development ⓘ |
| notableWork | Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| raceType | desert off-road race ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
2004 DARPA Grand Challenge
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2007 DARPA Urban Challenge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsor | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sponsorAcronym | DARPA NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeToFinish | under 7 hours ⓘ |
| usedTechnology |
GPS
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LIDAR ⓘ computer vision ⓘ inertial navigation system ⓘ machine learning ⓘ sensor fusion ⓘ |
| vehicleBaseModel | Volkswagen Touareg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleManufacturer | Volkswagen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleName | Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vehicleType | autonomous car ⓘ |
| yearOfVictory | 2005 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: DARPA Grand Challenge winning team Description of subject: The DARPA Grand Challenge winning team was the group of researchers and engineers, led by Sebastian Thrun at Stanford, whose autonomous vehicle "Stanley" successfully completed the 2005 desert race and became a landmark achievement in self-driving car development.
Referenced by (3)
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