DARPA Site Visit

Axion Racing is visited by the DARPA during the June, 2007 site visit team headed by Art Brukheim.

2007 NQE

The 34 members of 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge Team Leaders. Bill Kehaly (Tux) is 3rd in on top left.

Tony Tether

DARPA Director Tony Tether chats autonomous racing science with the Axion Racing Twins at 2007 Challenge.

City Streets

Axion Racing takes Spirit out to the streets of Adelanto and sees what she can do in city like traffic conditions.

FAQ Line

The Axion Racing Twins answer autonomous vehicle questions from different 2007 NQE team members.

Play Station

Axion Racing is 1st autonomous racing team to use a Sony PlayStation 3 for backing up.

SCLA Success

The autonomous vehicle Spirit runs the "A" course at 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

PS3 Carmeras

The cameras for the Sony PlayStation 3 are located under Spirit's back bumper.

Spirit Gets Fixed

With almost 200K miles on her body Spirit needs lots of tender love and extra care.

Preparation

The Axion Racing team completes field testing for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge race.

Spirt Reaches Top

Spirit is the first autnomous vehicle to reach the 14,110' top of Colorado's Pike Peak.

2006 Pikes Peak

Spirit is able to drive to the top of Colorado's Pikes Peak by following a very windy road.

Salton Sea

Team spends some quality time testing city driving at the Salton Sea in California.

CSPD

A member of the Colorado Springs Police Department proudly wears an Axion Racing hat.

Cheer Leaders

A couple of Denver Broncos Twin Cheerleaders come over to see how Spirit drives herself.

First Pitch

Bill Kehaly uses Holiday Inn (Barstow) miles to throw out pitch at a Dodger game.

Good Grub

The Axion Racing team continues to use the Barstow's Slash X as a valued field test area.

Endurance

Team tests Spirit for over ten hours to insure that she can drive as far as an average human.

3D World

Axion Racing completes the code to create a 3d world that Spirit can understand and use.

Ocotillo Wells

The team works on high speeds in the bad lands just outside of Octillo Wells, California.

DARPA Site Visit

Spirit has her first visit from DARPA before qualifications for the 2005 Grand Challenge.

2005 NQE

Spirit is shown with her surfboards at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge NQE.

NASA

NASA Mike does a hand stand after he and other NASAites come out for a week of testing.

Wired

Magazine call Spirit the "Rock Star" and makes her a favorite against six other teams.

Comfortable

Axion Racing proves that five can seat comfortably while testing at 29 Palms Marine Base.

NQE Success

Spirit is one of five teams to complete the National Qualification Event with perfect runs.

Starts 3rd

The first three teams line up in order at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge starting line.

2005 Media

Grand Challenges have lots of press coverage and some wait for Spirit to drive past.

2005 Challenge

Spirit starts off the 2005 Challenge and beats Caltech, Virginia Tech, Mitre, and Ford.

Challenge Finish

DARPA reports that Spirit drove into this sand trap. Team autonomously completed 67 miles.

Racing Twins

The Axion Racing Twins are interviewed just prior to the start of QID qualifications.

2004 QID

Team Leader Bill Kehaly (4th from left) waits for another participant to be introduced.

Tony & Friends

DARPA's Tony Tether and a 'special' assistant meet with Team Leader Bill Kehaly.

ARSE

Axion Racing Sensory Enclosure is needed for driving in the wet Mohave Desert.

Road & Track

Magazine takes Spirit out to a local California raceway and puts her through tests.

2004 Challenge

Photo of a section of the first people in history to ever attend autonomous vehicle racing.

QID Success

Ranked as 6th best vehicle from 2004 Qualification, Inspection, & Demonstration.

360 Party

Spirit takes off and suffers from multi-path errors and ends up behind the 2004 race starting line.

2004 Media

Spirit passes the press area during the 2004 Challenge. Shows off Melo Water on NBC.

Challenge Finish

Aerial shot shows Spirit doing a 360 turn at the starting line of 2004 race for no actual gain.

Axion, LLC

A 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee and intelligent people with personalities come together.

2003 Sema Show

Axion Racing is the first team to demonstrate an autonmous vehicle at Sema Show.

Calendar

Axion Racing prepares to take first of five Calendar shots with the Axion Racing Twins.

UCSD Job Fair

Axion Racing looks for a few good software engineers at the UCSD 2003 career days.

Team Chow

Members of Axion Racing get together to discuss autonomous vehicle racing plans.

Testing

Melanie Dumas and Josh O'Briant put their robot coding skills to the test on Spirit behavior.

Playboy

2003 interview with German Playboy. Axion Racing learns to read it for photos.

FACTS

One of Germany's largest periodicals takes Spirit to the beach and runs some tests.

Gizmo

Australia's Gizmo Magazine features CMU and Axion Racing as Challenge front runners.

Fortune

US Fortune Small Business talks to Axion Racing about autonomous vehicles.