Metairie, LA, March 22, 2010…GrayMatter announced today that it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (“ERAU”) by which the University will become a partner in furthering the research and development of the GrayMatter AVS™ Autonomous Vehicle System.  GrayMatter will provide Embry-Riddle the latest version of its AVS™ hardware and software and use of one of its drive-by-wire equipped autonomous vehicles to serve as a development platform.

Dr. Sergey Drakunov, Professor of Physical Sciences at Embry-Riddle, who for the past four years has assisted GrayMatter in the development of vehicle control algorithms, will lead the project for the University.  Assisting him will be Dr. Charles Reinholtz, Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Daytona Beach Campus.  Dr. Reinholtz was previously associated with Team Victor Tango, sponsored by Virginia Tech, the third-finishing team in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

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