Indy Autonomous Challenge

🏎 🤖 The Indy Autonomous Challenge is making a return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 6, 2024! 👩🎓 This historic event will feature a head-to-head race of the world's fastest autonomous racecars, driven by AI software developed by 10 teams from 18 top universities across the globe. 🏆 In October 2021, IAC organized the world's first head-to-head autonomous racing competition at IMS. Since then, the IAC and its university teams have set multiple records for high-speed ground-based autonomy, including 9000 miles of autonomous racing! 💡 The upcoming race, held in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, will feature the best minds in autonomous vehicle technology. It's not just a race, but a showcase of how AI drivers can safely navigate high speeds, revolutionizing future mobility and supply chain logistics. 🌎 The race day will include interactive events, including an Innovation Paddock, a Future Mobility Summit, and a STEM Zone to inspire the next generation of leaders and innovators. 📍 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gX6wMjnP 🎟 Get tickets: https://lnkd.in/gEEum66E

🎉 A leading autonomous driving technology company, driveblocks, has joined the Autoware Foundation as our newest #premium member! 🚀 🌍 driveblocks is a startup out of Munich, Germany, founded by automotive industry veterans and autonomous racing pioneers with a proven track record in getting autonomous driving technology on the roads and testing the limits of autonomy on the race tracks. 🏎️ The driveblocks team met at the Technical University of Munich, where they participated in the Indy Autonomous Challenge race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and emerged victorious, achieving overtaking maneuvers at blazing speeds of 265 km per hour. 🏁 💡 driveblocks’ core technology combines various #AI algorithms to create a local environment model based on sensor data. This is in contrast to needing #HDmaps where the vehicle operates, which is expensive to build and maintain over time. driveblocks’ modular software architecture conveniently resembles Autoware’s modular software architecture, allowing the integration of driveblocks’ technology into #Autoware software. 🧩 🔧 The driveblocks team plans to join the 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 and 𝐌𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 working groups. With their deep expertise in deep learning, camera and LiDAR-based perception, and sensor fusion, they offer interface definitions and implementations to enable Autoware software to leverage #mapless autonomous driving. 🌐 Besides that, the driveblocks team will work closely with the working groups to suggest improvements to the modularity of the relevant autonomy stacks (e.g., #sensing, #perception) to unlock the possibility of third-party vendors offering other perception and sensor fusion solutions. 🛠️ 💬 The driveblocks team underscores the importance of #opensource, especially during early #commercialization stages, for setting up a de facto industry standard for different players to collaborate and for startups to focus on their core competencies and differentiated value offerings while reusing, nurturing, and consuming collective experience within the open source community for other parts of the project. 👏 We welcome driveblocks to the Autoware Foundation and are excited to work with a partner with excellent experience in developing cutting-edge autonomous driving algorithms and autonomous solutions backed by years of experience in research, development, and deployment of autonomous solutions. 👉 Read more on the Autoware Foundation blog: https://lnkd.in/es38akgK - - - - - 🔔 Follow The Autoware Foundation for updates on #autonomousvehicles and #opensource - - - - - Alexander Wischnewski | Dr. Stephan Matz #news #newmember #driveblocks #autoware #opensource #autonomousvehicle #technology #autonomousdriving #AI #ROS2 #mapless #maplessnavigation #research #member #welcome #worktogether

Got us a new hat with Stars and Stripes to prep for race day (Sep 6) at Indy Autonomous Challenge -surely that adds an extra 50hp, right? 🇺🇸 Ready to race and represent! 🏎️ 💨 Cavalier Autonomous Racing UVA Engineering #HoosTheDriver #autonomousracing #robotics #ai

I am thrilled to announce that MSU’s Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) team, PoliMOVE-MSU, has forged a new partnership with the Michigan Office of Future Mobility & Electrification (OFME)! This collaboration will significantly enhance our team's activities, providing our students with invaluable hands-on experience in connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies.    Thanks to the support of OFME and the state’s Chief Mobility Officer, Justine Johnson, we can now engage even more students, including Michigan K-12 STEAM students, in the exciting world of autonomous racing.    Next stop: Indianapolis Motor Speedway on September 6, 2024, were we’ll race the world’s fastest autonomous race cars.   Click the link below to read more about this new partnership. #MSUMobility

🏎 Indy Autonomous Challenge @ IMS on September 6th! 🤖 Join us in the paddock area to explore Kistler Group’s latest advancements in vehicle testing: RoaDyn Racing – Open-wheel wheel force transducer. Optical Sensors – Precision slip angle for motorsports KiTorq DS – Wireless torque measurement 6mm Cube Triax – Tiny, but a giant in innovation Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dUGEk6W3 Looking forward to an action-packed event. See you there! #AutonomousRacing #InnovatorsWorkWithKistler

Caltech joins the Indy Autonomous Challenge 🏎 🎓 We are thrilled to announce the California Institute of Technology as the 10th team in the world’s largest autonomous racing program. Welcome to the paddock, CAST Racer team! 👩🔬 Leading the charge is team principal, Dr. Soon-Jo Chung, alongside Dr. Fred Hadaegh and Dr. Mory Gharib from Caltech’s cutting-edge Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies. 🏎️ CAST Racer is proudly supported by Beyond Limits, a leader in industrial-grade neuro-symbolic hybrid AI platforms. The partnership with Beyond Limits underscores the commercial and technological potential of the AI driver software being developed and validated through the IAC's AV-24 robotics platform. 🌍 The addition of CAST Racer enriches our community with Caltech’s long-standing tradition of technology innovation in competitive racing environments, enhancing the collective capabilities of all teams involved 📍 Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/dpS4QZYQ

👀 Have you seen the Autoware I/O portal on the Autoware Foundation website? The Autoware project is important in lowering the entry barrier to autonomous driving technology. 🚗 Being fully #opensource and hosted on GitHub (https://lnkd.in/g35j6Acv), individuals and organizations can start demystifying autonomous driving technology. 🚀 Taking it one step further, Autoware Foundation member organization offerings can be used to bridge the gap between simple testing with Autoware and full-fledged Autoware-based solutions. 🛣️ The Autoware I/O portal is envisioned as a marketplace where Autoware Foundation members can exhibit their products and services to address collaboration needs with OEMs, Tier 1s, and all autonomy solution suppliers. 🤝 Some of the latest additions to the Autoware I/O portal are: 🔸 AUTOCRYPT fortifies future mobility with cutting-edge cybersecurity, ensuring secure V2X communications and in-vehicle systems. 🔸 driveblocks delivers “Mapless Autonomy,” combining deep learning and geometry for safe, modular operations across various industries. 🔸 Edutech Future Mobility Labs bridges industry and academia, promoting Autoware and expanding autonomous driving technology through educational programs. 🔸 Indy Autonomous Challenge advances automated vehicles with global racing competitions, driving innovation in safety and performance. 🔸 KATECH (Korea Automotive Technology Institute) accelerates autonomous driving with embedded solutions, enhancing Software-Defined Vehicles through innovative research. 🔸 Kudan supports autonomous driving with advanced SLAM and HD mapping solutions for diverse environments. 🔸 Mechatnom leads in automotive electronics, integrating software into thousands of vehicles while developing Steer-by-Wire systems. 🔸 MIIVII TECH empowers rapid robotics development with NVIDIA-based platforms, enabling swift deployment of advanced systems. 🔸 Red Hat enhances Autoware with RPM packages and containerized solutions, streamlining development and deployment on OpenShift. 🔸 REKA integrates sensors and hardware with Autoware, offering scalable platforms and consultancy for seamless autonomous driving. 🔸 Robeff Technology automates transportation with electric and self-driving vehicle platforms. 🔸 Synkrotron OASIS suite accelerates autonomous driving development with advanced simulation and digital twin technologies. Check out the Autoware I/O portal now 👉https://lnkd.in/er2CZC93 #autoware #opensource #autonomousvehicles #technology #collaboration #cocreation #referencedesigns

Our Cavalier Autonomous Racing car is tearing down the Brickyard front straight at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and I wouldn’t blame you for thinking #autonomousracing is all about #AI. But there’s so much more to it. While deep neural networks play their crucial roles in our autonomy stack (more on this later); where the rubber truly meets the road (literally), we rely on physics-based models, Model Predictive Control, optimal control design, and non-linear state estimation. These aren’t just theoretical #robotics and #control concepts - they’re the backbone that makes the race car stable and effective on the track. It’s incredibly satisfying to see these techniques come together in real-world testing. The driving force? Our incredible students. 🎓 💪 Here are two recent research papers from our group on the subject of #vehicledynamics modeling for autonomous racing: 📄 Scalable Deep Kernel Gaussian Process for Vehicle Dynamics in Autonomous Racing - Published at CoRL 2023 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eubAWntt 📄 Deep Dynamics: Vehicle Dynamics Modeling With a Physics-Constrained Neural Network for Autonomous Racing - Published in RA-L, to be presented at IROS 2024 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eU7xqVTW UVA Engineering UVA Engineering Link Lab Indy Autonomous Challenge #autonomousvehicles #safeautonomy

Team AI Racing Tech is revving up for the Indy Autonomous Challenge at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sept. 6! In the first head-to-head race of the new AV-24s – the world’s fastest autonomous racecars – the team is looking good in its University of California blue and gold 🔱 The AI Racing Tech team includes students and faculty from UC San Diego, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Hawaii at Manoa. In this video, they're testing their car on the Kentucky Motor Speedway track in preparation for the September 6 race. The AI Racing Tech Team, the most decorated U.S.-based team participating in the Indy Autonomous Challenge, pushes untested boundaries and drives research to ensure the highest caliber of safety for the future of commercial autonomy. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g6MkVVy6 Jack Silberman Ph.D. Triton AI Autonomous Racing Henrik Christensen

Are you looking for a place to cheer for our TUM Autonomous Motorsport Team? The Software Defined Vehicles Meetup hosted by TUM Venture Labs is the perfect occasion. It's an excellent opportunity to experience outstanding speakers and, more importantly, to connect with experts from Industry and Academia, all while watching the Indy Autonomous Challenge Race at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. So, sign up for the event before it is too late! Thanks to our sponsors, who enable us to compete in Indy. Mobility Technology Center GmbH, InoNet Computer GmbH, Fernride, Evum Motors GmbH, Twaice