ANNOUNCEMENTS

Team Juggernaut was one of 36 semi-finalists for the DARPA Urban Challenge 2007. Read the announcement here.

Team Juggernaut was featured in the news. KSL TV Channel 5 in Salt Lake City filmed the Urban Juggernaut and the team's backup vehicle (a HMMWV) driving autonomously. Visit our News page, or go directly to KSL TV's Web site.

DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Recap

DesignJug sponsored Team Juggernaut, whose vehicle Desert Juggernaut competed as a semifinalist in the DARPA Grand Challenge 2005, which was held Oct. 8, 2005, in Primm, Nev. Hay bales proved to be the vehicle’s nemesis and prevented it from finishing the National Qualification Event (NQE) and competing in the final (for more information on DARPA or the Grand Challenge 2005, visit DARPA’s Web site).

DesignJug's Desert Juggernaut competes at the Grand Challenge 2005 National Qualification Event (NQE).

• Video of the Desert Juggernaut on the Grand Challenge 2005 course and of technology spun out of the Grand Challenge 2005.

Learning from the NQE experience, Team Juggernaut returned to the Nevada desert one month later. Desert Juggernaut completed 63 miles of the Grand Challenge 2005 final course with largely the same system that was used in the NQE. A mechanical problem halted further distances.

Leveraging the technology and success from the Grand Challenge 2005, DesignJug has developed a strap-on autonomy system for optionally unmanned ground or surface systems. The Pronto4™ Strap-on Autonomy System is a universal retrofit kit that, when installed in less than four hours on any vehicle or vessel, enables optionally unmanned travel. Team Juggernaut will use the Pronto4™ system in the Urban Challenge 2007, DARPA’s latest challenge for Autonomous Ground Vehicles (AGVs). For more information on the Pronto4™ system, visit the Kairos Autonomi Web site.