AI Racing Tech Competes @IAC 2024 @Racing Capital of the World
INDIANAPOLIS – The AI Racing Tech team, led by the University of California, Berkeley, along with the University of California, San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Hawaii, competed in the 2024 Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the international autonomous racing authority, on September 6 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In the first-ever head-to-head competition of the new AV-24s – World’s Fastest Autonomous Racecars – nine international teams representing a total of 18 universities put their software to the test at speeds up to 184 MPH.
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UC Berkeley ROAR takes lead with AI Racing Tech
The University of California, Berkeley, the world’s number one public university, is assuming leadership of the nation’s most decorated autonomous racecar team in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. After more than three years since its start at the University of Hawai’i, AI Racing Tech has risen to prominence for advancing a sophisticated stack of autonomy, AI, and “sim-to-real” technologies under high-stakes, high-speed racing conditions as well as for winning races and setting speed records. As UC Berkeley takes on the role of lead university, the roster of universities, principals, and industry sponsors comprising and supporting the team remains the same.
LAS VEGAS - At CES 2023, AI Racing Tech sweeps into third place, taking out MIT. Watch the winning race here.
ART takes 2nd Place at Texas 2022!
FORT WORTH - In an upset, AI Racing Tech swept into second place in the international head-to-head race at IAC 2022 on the Texas Motor Speedway. Find out more.
In the final stretch to prepare for the November 11 Indy 2022 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.
AI Racing Tech at IAC 2021, first-ever international driverless car competition!
INDIANAPOLIS - The University of Hawaiʻi made history competing in the Indy Autonomous Challenge 2021 — the first-ever autonomous race car event. The AI Racing Tech team achieved its fastest speed ever and placed sixth in the competition.
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No driver, just software. Imagine driverless 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.
AI Racing Tech team is one of nine teams that currently compete in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC). The IAC is a collaborative effort bringing together public-private partnerships with 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!
A main focus of AI Racing Tech has been developing advanced simulation environments that test autonomous software stacks in a real-world setting ("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 the Las Vegas Motor Speed Way, developing 3D maps and race car dynamics for SVL Simulator and CARLA simulator. The team also supports integration with BeamNG.
