Indy Autonomous Challenge • CES 2021
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- CES 2021 digital reveal of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC)
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Energy Systems Network (ESN) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS), organizers of the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), today unveiled at CES 2021 the official racecar that will be autonomously driven by scores of university teams in the world’s first high-speed, head-to-head autonomous race at the Racing Capital of the World on Oct. 23, 2021.
The goal of the IAC is to advance technologies that can speed the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), leading to increased safety and performance. In addition, the IAC challenges the best and brightest university students worldwide to engage in hands-on engineering.
“The Dallara-built IAC racecar is the most advanced, fastest autonomous vehicle ever developed,” stated Paul Mitchell, president and CEO of ESN. “IAC sponsors are providing radar, lidar, optical cameras and advanced computers, bringing the value of each vehicle to $1 million.”
The IAC, scheduled for October 23 at IMS, will hold a qualifying simulation race during the Indy 500 week in May. The total prize purse is $1.5 million: $1 million awarded to the winning team in October, and an additional $500,000 for winners of hackathons and simulation races, awarded by IAC sponsor, Ansys.
More than 500 university students, PhDs and mentors who excel in artificial intelligence software, have responded to the challenge, representing 39 universities in 11 countries on four continents and 14 U.S. states.
Sebastian Thrun, winner of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, said that the DARPA race served as inspiration for the IAC. “It proved that robots can drive themselves in very confined environments, but that they don’t have the agility and skill of a really well-trained human race driver to act in extreme situations. IMS is the best place in the world to challenge the robotics community to test self-driving cars. By going into a racing context, we will stretch self-driving cars to the absolute limit.”
The Autonomous Racecar
Since 2002, Dallara has been the sole racecar supplier of the Indy Lights series, and now the modified Dallara IL-15 is the official IAC racecar. The racecar has been retrofitted with hardware and controls to enable automation to enhance safety, control and performance. Components include rugged-edge on-board computing, vehicle-to-vehicle communications, perception systems, high-end graphics processing units, drive-by-wire, and artificial intelligence acceleration and powerful central processing units to run IAC teams’ software and algorithms in the racecar.
One of the challenges for autonomous racing is solving edge case scenarios - challenges that occur only at extreme operating parameters, such as avoiding unanticipated obstacles at high speeds.
“Dallara is the best racecar engineering company in the world, yet designing the chassis for autonomous racing was really challenging,” explained Stefano dePonti, CEO and general manager of Dallara USA. “We know how the world’s best race drivers react in the Dallara in high-speed scenarios, but now we have to anticipate the actions of a robot.”
Innovation at IMS
IMS has been a catalyst and proving ground for motorsport and transportation innovation since its inception in 1909. IMS hosts the crown jewel of the NTT INDYCAR SERIES, the Indianapolis 500 - annually the world’s largest single-day sporting event. The NTT INDYCAR SERIES is North America’s premier open-wheel racing series.
“The IAC is going to bring the best minds from around the world to solve a very complex problem, right here at the Racing Capital of the World,” IMS President J. Douglas Boles said. “As the birthplace of motorsports’ innovation, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway is a fitting setting for this event, and we can’t wait to see the winning entry cross the Yard of Bricks into history.”
IAC Sponsors and Contributors
Indiana Economic Development Corporation, ADLINK, Ansys, Aptiv, AutonomouStuff, Bridgestone, Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), Dallara, Microsoft, New Eagle, PWR, RTI, Schaeffler and Valvoline.
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Ah well, this had to happen sooner or later. One must live with his time, I suppose... I'll just go off for a drive while I still can. To anyone reading this in 2121: yes, we drove cars ourselves. They drank petrol (C7H16), made wonderful noises, and made some people truly happy. I appreciate the efforts of all those involved in this project however. Such technical prowess is just mind-boggling. I simply wish that all this technology didn't have to be forced upon those who don't want it, at some point. A few years to go then, before we all get carted around in soulless tin cans. "sigh"...
Not in my lifetime!! I'll never own a hybrid or an autonomous vehicle and they can have my cars when they pry my cold dead hands off the wheel!!! I don't even own anything made after 89 now, my 89 F250 pickup is the only fuel injected vehicle I own and that was because I inherited it from a neighbor.
I still think we’re about 20-25 years away from autonomous vehicles taking over the roads, hopefully longer. They’re still getting in accidents and running people over during testing, no way are they even near ready.
Now EV taking over the roads? That’s not too far away, sadly.
@@bap7929 I must agree. Competitions like this one will certainly push the boundaries of current technological limitations. Other problems will arise however, like the transition period in between driven and autonomous vehicles. Also generating the technical background, servers and whatnot, is going to be a hell of a sack of knots. Imagine the required computing power needed to manage all of these driverless machines... I am not certain we will see them take over, but our children might.
all i can think of is demolition man and hope they continue to have a self drive option
I can only hope that there will still be a racetrack. Unfortunately, big racetracks are already disappearing, and on top of that, new eligible drivers don't want to drive, and don't like cars. When everything is autonomous, then who would want any competition between each other, if no human can surpass autonomous driving? It would just be a chore. Glad I won't have to see racing die in my own lifetime.
Did Firestone test the tires that shredded themselves a couple decades ago on your track?
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How many of these groups include Tesla and the other major car manufacturers who are building autonomous vehicles? if they're not involved, this is nothing more than a grand college experiment.
also, a track full of autonomous vehicles is a far cry from a super busy metropolis with a mixture of autonomous vehicles and vehicles driven by people. it will be interesting to see how well these innovations will work towards getting cars that will be able to anticipate people.
I believe a few DARPA researchers are also involved or so I read. I wonder how much federal grant money has been funneled into it? I'll have to look at that and have a good laugh at our so called budget concerns. I'm sure the millions spent on testing the consistency of ketchup are still being enjoyed by someone somewhere.
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Why not just run full size R/C cars? If they can do it with drones and have such accuracy, a race car should be childsplay.
@Iamyou iamyou Between Tesla's collision avoidance system and LDW, FLR installed in most newer vehicles it wouldn't be much of a stretch. Combined with self learning tech used in the AI field it'd be a piece of cake.
@Iamyou iamyou I'm sure it could be reverse engineered outside the US in a reasonable amount of time. And what's auto racing without accidents? It's admittedly why most people go to see them.
@Iamyou iamyou Tesla's system.
@Iamyou iamyou Buy a Tesla.
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