CajunBot

CajunBot refers to the autonomous ground vehicles developed by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette for the DARPA Grand Challenges.

[2][3][4][5] CajunBot's custom AGV software, CBSystem, has artificial intelligence path planning capabilities, as well as visualization and simulation components.

In 2002, DARPA announced the first Grand Challenge: "Build a robotic vehicle able to travel unassisted on a predefined path of about 130 miles through the Mojave Desert.

After learning of the Challenge in 2003, a small group of UL Lafayette students and professors joined to see if they could take on the task of designing a completely autonomous vehicle.

It brought together engineers and inventors and managed to channel their energies into the development of important technologies designed to save American lives on the battlefield.

As envisioned by DARPA, the 2004 and 2005 Grand Challenges successfully accelerated development of the core technology behind fully autonomous battlefield vehicles.

Capabilities of CBSystem:[6] On June 2, 2004, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco officially declared Wednesday to be known as "CajunBot day".

"[26] "CNN producer Marsha Walton said the crew decided on CajunBot as a subject because of its uniqueness and freshness to the contest.