Prospect Eleven was Princeton University’s entry in DARPA’s Grand Challenge 2005, a competition of autonomous vehicles traveling a prescribed course. The challenge of the event was to build or modify an automobile-sized vehicle that can negotiate a prescribed course containing randomly placed obstacles without any human intervention.

5:52 p.m., Oct. 2, 2007--Prof. Alain L. Kornhauser of Princeton University will present a lecture on intelligent transportation systems at 2 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4, in Room 106 of the Composites Manufacturing Science Lab.

The lecture, "GPS Route Guidance and Automated Highway Systems," will include a description of approaches taken by teams of Princeton University undergraduates to automate vehicles for participation in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

Kornhauser is Professor of Operations Research & Financial Engineering at Princeton, as well as director of the Transportation Research Program and co-director for the New Jersey Center for Transportation Information and Decision Engineering (NJ Tide). He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in aerospace engineering from Penn State and master's and doctoral degrees in aerospace and mechanical sciences at Princeton University. Kornhauser is co-editor of several books and author of more than 100 scholarly papers.

Kornhauser also founded ALK Technologies Inc., which designs and builds real-time customized decision systems for major transportation companies and develops, markets, maintains and supports transportation routing software and databases.

The lecture is sponsored by the Delaware Center for Transportation and the University of Delaware University Transportation Center. For more information, contact Sandi Wolfe at [sandiw@udel.edu] or (302) 831-4094.