10 teams from 21 universities compete for $1.5 million in Indy Autonomous Challenge

The Official Vehicle that each Indy Autonomous Challenge Teams indispensable usage is the Dallara-produced AV-21 that has been retrofitted with hardware and controls to alteration automation.

Image: Indy Autonomous Challenge/Cisco

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway volition big the archetypal autonomous racecar contention connected October 23 with algorithms driving the cars alternatively of humans. College students are penning the bundle to powerfulness the cars. 

There are 10 teams representing 21 universities competing successful the Indy Autonomous Challenge:

• AI Racing Tech – University of Hawai'i, University of California San Diego
• Autonomous Tiger Racing – Auburn University
  
• Black & Gold Autonomous Racing – Purdue University, United States Military Academy astatine West Point
  
• Cavalier Autonomous Racing – University of Virginia
  
• EuroRacing – University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), University of Pisa (Italy), ETH Zürich (Switzerland), Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
  
• IUPUI-IITKGP-USB – Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India), Universidad de San Buenaventura (Colombia)
  
• KAIST – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
  
• MIT-PITT-RW – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Waterloo (Canada)
  
• PoliMOVE – Politecnico di Milano (Italy), University of Alabama
  
• TUM Autonomous Motorsport – Technische Universität München (Germany)
  

The archetypal squad to transverse the decorativeness enactment successful 25 minutes oregon little volition triumph $1 million. Second spot is $250,000 and 3rd spot is $50,000. The remaining prize wealth was awarded earlier successful the contention for the archetypal and 2nd spot finishers successful a simulated race.

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Teams volition usage a Dallara AV-21 designed for autonomous racing. Clemson University's Deep Orange 12 team re-engineered and assembled the conveyance to incorporated automation. According to a property release, this allows the racecar to usage each team's driverless algorithms which volition execute each the driving tasks. The pupil teams wrote the autonomous driving bundle which makes driving decisions based connected accusation from cameras, GPS inputs and sensors. Long-range LiDAR provides precocious resolution, a wide horizontal tract of presumption and dynamic scanning capabilities that allows the contention car to admit different cars and debris connected the track. 

Cisco is sponsoring the lawsuit and providing wireless connectivity to link cars connected the racetrack with drivers connected the sidelines. This includes contention power commands, telemetry information offload and GPS timing alignment. The connectivity infrastructure includes Cisco ultra-reliable wireless backhaul for backstage mobile connectivity and Cisco Catalyst concern Switches which supply up to 40 Gigabit throughput successful the conveyance to link the sensors successful the car. The switches supply the indispensable bandwidth and web velocity to process accusation during a race, according to Cisco.

Autonomous vehicles and Clemson University

Clemson's Deep Orange 12 squad has been moving connected the autonomous conveyance for astir 2 years. The squad spent astir 18 months designing the self-driving car, according to the University. The students had to physique an autonomous conveyance that "had to run astatine precocious speeds, travel analyzable contention power procedures and acceptable into a tightly-constrained, aerodynamic package," according to a blog station from the University. The 40-student squad unveiled their finished car successful Indianapolis successful May.

The Deep Orange task is simply a long-standing programme astatine the assemblage that connects students with manufacture experts to plan a prototype. The two-year master's grade programme for automotive engineering students provides hands-on acquisition successful conveyance design, engineering, prototyping and production. With this autonomous project, the students worked with much than 38 suppliers, partners and organizations to make caller engineering solutions, components and software.

The car's diagnostic acceptable includes:

• Advanced cognition systems
• Precision high-speed drive-by-wire power
• Low-latency, high-throughput, ultra-reliable V2X connection
• Purpose-built structural racing motor  
• High-speed on-board computing and software 
• A plan that allows for bid production 
• Rules and procedures for head-to-head autonomous racing  
• Ultra-compact aerodynamic constituent packaging 

Robert Prucka, Deep Orange 12 module pb and an subordinate prof with the Clemson University Department of Automotive Engineering, said successful the blog station that the demands of this task went acold beyond erstwhile Deep Orange projects, "not conscionable successful the exertion itself but with the abbreviated timeline, bid production, disparate systems and staying harmless during COVID."

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