AI Racing Tech became the top ranked US Team after the final race of the head to head Indy Autonomous Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway, on November 11th
Check out the recorded livestream at https://www.twitch.tv/indyachallenge
AI Racing Tech (ART) team has grown out of the spring 2020 UH-Maui Autonomous Vehicle Technology (AVT) class. It started small and went from scaled vehicles to go-kart-sized to full-sized Indy Lights racing cars.
The Maui ART team has partnered with the brilliant faculty and students from UH-Manoa, UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, and Triton-AI UC San Diego to proudly be called AI Racing Tech!
This collaboration is working to enrich the skills and resources of the schools as well as to demonstrate the collaboration and valuable Ohan'a (Good Will) the various campuses have for each other.
Kicking off the new Season
In the final stretch to prepare for the November 11th Indy Autonomous Challenge at Texas Motor Speedway, the Team put in long days and long nights in Fort Worth. Footage courtesy of Zhihao Deng, filmmaker "Cute Cake."
No driver, just software. Imagine driver-less autonomous vehicles battling wheel to wheel for track position and podium success. All to help improve the performance and safety of vehicles of tomorrow...
Autonomous racing is the ultimate engineering challenge. The driver is replaced with a variety of sensors that act as the eyes and ears of the vehicle, feeding the data to a planning and control algorithm that students develop and tune!
INITIATIVES
AI Racing Tech team is one of nine teams that currently compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC). The IAC is a broadly collaborative effort that brings together public-private partnerships and academic institutions to challenge university students around the world to imagine, invent and prove a new generation of automated vehicle software to run fully autonomous racecars. As this competition is a significantly greater challenge the UH-ART team is proud to be collaborating with the UH-Manoa Robotics Lab, UC Berkeley, and Triton-AI UC San Diego to form the AI Racing Tech team!
One of AI Racing Tech's main focuses has been to develop advanced simulation environments that test autonomous software stacks in an "as real-world" setting as possible (Sim to Real). This Sim to Real focus is a valuable solution to the challenge of needing many hours on a racetrack to properly advance an autonomous software stack.
AI Racing Tech has been a leading developer in simulation environments for both the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speed Way. Developing accurate 3d maps and race car dynamics for SVL Simulator and VRExperence powered by Ansys.
As part of the AI Racing Tech team, the goal was to pull together the resources to allow both UH and Triton-AI UC San Diego classes (team) to put together a human-scale autonomous vehicle based on an evKart to compete in the 2022 Purdue-sponsored international competition for racing an evKart in the Autonomous Masters division. In preparing for that competition the class acquired a base evKart from TopKart and is actively working toward building and improving its autonomous capability. AI Racing Tech team has successfully competed and placed 3rd for the 2021 evGrandPrix challenge and is currently working on improvements for the 2022 race at Purdue.
In 2020 UHMC built its first dedicated course on Autonomous Vehicle Technology. The course was UH-MC ETRO293v – Autonomous Vehicle Technologies. The focus of the course was to build up undergraduate students’ knowledge of the many elements of autonomous vehicle design and operation as well as give the students additional hands-on experience using their knowledge from other UH-MC classes. At the core was an emphasis on addressing autonomous racing considerations and pushing the envelope on the software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles. The Class is proposed for Spring 2022 and will move from Jetson Racers to much more sophisticated F1Tenth vehicles and give the students a chance to participate in both virtual as well as actual track events. We also plan to add a possible intern or two from a local high school under a “fast start program”.
The AI Racing Tech team proudly counts on the support of a number of industry corporations and leaders as well as many local community sources.
Some of these are New Eagle LLC (DbW), ADLINK (Compute processors and ROS2 support), Luxonis (Camera and Neural Networking), PointOneNav(GNSS/RTK/IMU), Emlid (GNSS/RTK), RockWestComposites (Composite Mat’ls) and many others.
Beyond the amazing international support for the University of Hawai’i, we locally have the support of the Maui Robotic Vehicle Association (MRVA), St. Anthony School STEM program, VectorAero LLC, and many others. We look to add to this list.
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HUGE Shout out to the TritonAI team for their 2nd place victory at this year's @evGrandPrix! @AiRacingTech,#UCBerkley, and #TritionAI have been extremely busy in the garage and lab to make this amazing day happen!
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