Lafayette, LA – CajunBot has completed the 2004 DARPA track, albeit in a virtual environment. Which means, CajunBot software has run the entire 142.25 miles without the bot leaving the laboratory.While still quite far from the real thing, this is a significant test. Our first attempt to complete the course several months ago had failed about thirty miles short. That failure led to discovery of some significant weaknesses in our approach, which have now been addressed.
Now we can say with significant confidence that the software can chug for the distance without crashing due to conditions such as memory leak. That does not mean that the bot itself would not crash. All it says is that it is highly unlikely that the bot, which runs on Linux, will crash due to the ‘blue screen of death,’ borrowing from Windows(-haters) terminology.
- Arun Lakhotia