Italian team PoliMove wins driverless car race in Texas.
It is already the second victory for the Politecnico di Milano team at the Texas circuit. Nice once won the team from Italy won the world championship in the autonomous race “Indy Autonomous Challenge”. The race is attracting increasing attention as the vehicles reach speeds of 300 miles per hour.
This is what is expected for the next round of the championship, which will take place on January 7 in Las Vegas takes place, increasing audience numbers. Here the PoliMOVE team of the Faculty of Electronics, Information Technology and Biotechnology, led by Prof. Sergio M. Savaresi, has to defend its title.
21 teams, consisting of around 500 university students from 39 universities in 11 countries, competed against each other on the Texas Motor Speedway. The race is also intended to advance the technology of autonomous driving and thus commercialization.
The teams program autonomous Dallara AV-21 race cars. This means that the vehicles are of the same nature, only the software changes. you have lidar– and radar sensors as well as optical cameras. In addition, algorithms for artificial intelligence be programmed.
Other mechanical, aerodynamic or engine modifications are not permitted. Electronics and sensors are also the same for all teams. The Indy Autonomous Challenge competition focuses too entirely on the artificial intelligence algorithms developed by the teams.