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Looking to incorporate the Sony PlayStation3 into your racing team. Well, someone has beat you to the punch. Another interesting use for the Sony PS3.

Autonomous Racing Team to Utilize a Sony PS3 in the Upcoming 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge

Maybe things aren’t all that bad for Sony in the company’s fight with Microsoft and Nintendo to sell the latest crop of game stations. A California company will be implementing a Sony PlayStation to process cameras information used to autonomously drive during this November’s $2 million DARPA Urban Challenge. With four years of autonomous racing experience and using Yellow Dog Linux, San Diego’s Axion Racing is excited about showing folks other things that can be done using a PlayStation console. Axion Racing qualified as the sixth team for the 2004 and the third team for the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenges. The team’s autonomous vehicle Spirit, was the first car to drive itself up to the 14,100 foot top of Colorado’s Pikes Peak.

Never one to back down from any challenge, Axion Racing’s Team Leader Bill Kehaly expects great things from his team’s Sony PS3 console. “We felt having cars drive themselves was getting a little too easy, so we threw the Sony PlayStation into our bag of tricks,” joked Kehaly. The PS3 joins Axion’s cadre of Dell computers, SICK laser finders, Bumblebee stereo cameras, and FLIR infrared cameras all guided by twin Navcom Starfire GPS units. A Northrop Grumann LN-270 INS uses the earth’s inertia to help keep Spirit on track during any GPS multitasking issues.

The 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge features autonomous ground vehicles conducting simulated military supply missions in a mock urban area. These ground vehicles will drive through streets without any human interaction or remote control. This years qualifying round will be held in Fontana, California from October 26th through the 31st. The DARPA Urban Challenge will be held on November 3rd, at a still unspecified location.

The Sony PS3 was built with a new processor developed specially for the PlayStation console. The Cell processor, as it is known, is based on the PowerPC processor by IBM. The PS3 uses four processors that help Axion Racing’s computer arbitrator to quickly examine information from a RGB road finding camera. “It isn’t easy and some kinks are still being ironed out, but I see this as a useful tool,” stated Richard Kalling, the Path Planning Director for Axion Racing.

Axion Racing wasn’t given $1 million in recent US Government seed funding, to prepare for this year’s DARPA Urban Challenge. It did start and finish ahead of all but three 2005 race teams that did get funding. “I don’t get mad, I just try to get even.” explained Kehaly. “Our team was the first with an autonomous vehicle you could comfortably sit in, we have the photogenic Axion Racing Twins, we were the first to autonomously drive to the top of Pikes Peak, and now we plan on showing that a Sony PS3 can be an important part of future autonomous vehicles.”

By using a powerful computer system like the PS3, Axion Racing hopes to have enough tools to win this year’s DARPA Urban Challenge. It is expected that this new use of a PlayStation will present the processing capabilities inherent in this latest Sony game console. “We like to think out of the box, using the latest publicly available computer boxes, and we only use boxes that help raise us above our competition,” stated Kehaly.

Axion Racing’s Sony PS3, sensors, lights, sounds, and the autonomous vehicle’s other computers are powered by a Marine battery unit that allows Spirit to run unmanned for many hours. Who knows, maybe a little autonomous racing success is just what’s needed to improve sales numbers for the Sony PlayStation.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) August 3, 2007 — Axion Racing was the first team to autonomously drive up to the top of Colorado’s Pike Peak and now leads the way by finding cutting edge uses for the beleaguered Sony PS3. This two time DARPA Grand Challenge qualifier is the first racing team to implement Yellow Dog Linux and a Sony PlayStation game console to manage one of seven autonomous vehicle cameras.

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Do you finally have your Playstation portable but can’t connect it to your PS3 game system. It’s easier than you think if you know what to do. Learn the simple connection techniques involved in connecting your Playstation portable to your Playstation 3 below.

How to Connect Your Playstation Portable to Your Playstation 3

By Victor Lorentzo

Connecting your Playstation Portable (PSP) to your Playstation 3 (PS3) will allow you to play your PS3 games running on your console in your home from your PSP outside your home, using your PS3s’ wireless remote connection feature. In this article I will explain the benefits of establishing this connection.

In the resource box at the bottom of this article you will find a link to a video explaining how a PS3 and a PSP can be connected. The operation should go pretty smooth if you follow the guidelines in the tutorial video. You will find a video link at the end of this page.

Being separated from your new PS3 for a longer period of time can be hard. Imagine how hard it will be when new games like the new Grand Theft Auto get released. Connecting your PSP to your Playstation 3 will allow you to play your PS3 games even when you are outside your home.

You can play your Playstation 3 games from your office when you have a couple of minutes available, at your grandmothers’ birthday party, at the train or on the subway. With the wireless connection in your PS3 combined with the pretty high quality screen on your PSP this is not a bad option at all.

In addition to playing games from your PSP you are also able to watch movies from the Blue-ray/ DVD player on your PS3. Even though it is very possible to install videos on a PSP it is also a benefit to be able to watch DVD’s on it. I bet you have more DVD’s than you have PSP movies. At least I have.

If you have music installed on your Playstation 3 these are also available to play using your PSP if you have built a connection between the two. This is a handsome feature that can come in handy in a lot of situations.

Still I believe the most powerful feature of building a PSP-PS3 connection is the ability to play games. The quality is more than good enough and the ability to play my PS3 games from my sunny garden chair with a lemon ice tea is nothing to complain about.

If you want to know how to connect your PSP to your PS3 to avoid problems on the way I have posted a video about it on my website. Follow this link to watch it

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