HITB AI Village + Self Racing Car Challenge

May 9th & 10th

Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam

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What Is It?

Build, train, and race a self-driving model car!

A team based challenge (3 members per team), to build, train, and race a self-driving model car based on the 1/16th scale Donkey Car project (http://www.donkeycar.com/) – An open source DIY self driving platform for small scale cars.

Teams will be provided with 1 donkey car kit per team (yes, you need to return them to us or you can buy them from us – each kit is worth approximately USD 285 each) – You have 3 days to build, test and race your cars!

Rules

  • Finish 3 consecutives laps or DNF (Did Not Finish). Fastest single lap wins.

 

  • To complete the lap the car must go around all cones at the corners. Hitting a cone or passing a cone on the wrong side will always trigger a DNF.

 

  • Cones will be placed in a specific position determined before the race begin and maintain at the same position throughout the race.
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Teams

 # Organization / Team Name  Team Leader Team member  Country
1  VU + UvA Pim Dijt 3  Netherlands
2  Vrije universiteit Adam Kantorik 3  Netherlands
3  UvA / Wallachian Impalers Andrei Apostol 3  Romania
4  PING e.V. Sven Neuhaus 3  Germany
5  TomTom / Tatooine Mateusz Razniewski 2  Poland
6 Deepak 1  United States
7 Open to register
8 Open to register

AI Time Trial

Each team is given 1-2 chance (@5 minutes) for the time trial. First come first serve. The team should register their attempt trackmaster and trackmaster will assign a timeslot to them.

AI vs AI Head to Head

2 car head to head. Collisions sorted on the spot and continue. First one to finish 5 laps wins.

AI vs Human Finals

2 car head to head (one AI vs one human). Collisions sorted on the spot and continue. First one to finish 5 laps wins.

Human vs Human FPV Race

 

Format: 5 mins per driver, we have a total of 36 time slots for race/training. Each participating AI team will also be given 1 time slot to train their car on the track. So we can invite around 24 human driver to take the challenge.

 

In the 5 min human-race, drivers have 2 practise laps and 3 laps to lodge their best time in the time trial. The fastest single lap time wins.

 

Notes:

 

  1. You will be racing using FPV goggles provided by us
  2. You will race from a first person view
  3. We will provide you with the FPV race cars which are also Donkeycars
  4. The top 3 human drivers will be invited to the race next day (AI vs human).

Track Design

80% DIYRobocar Standard Track

 

DIYRobocars Standard Track

Dimension: 5.97m x 9.13m

Lane Width: 1.44m

Rules for AI Teams

 

  1. Only 1:16 RC or smaller car is allowed.

 

  1. Cars must start with a single binary interaction. This could be a button can be on the car, on a controller, a key on a keyboard or equivalent. No other intervention can happen until after the race is over otherwise the car gets a DNF. An emergency stop button is recommended but not required.

 

  1. There are no rules governing where the computing needs to take place.  Cars may have onboard computing, trackside computing or leverage remote or cloud resources. GPS and other similar positioning systems are not allowed.

Rules for human drivers

 

  1. Human driver must use the RC car provided by us and wear the FPV goggle to conduct the race.

 

  1. The images recorded of the human race will be provided to the teams for training.

Schedule - May 8th

  • 14:00 - 16:00 Track Preparation / Setup
  • 16:00 - 17:00 Kit Collection / Meet the organizers
  • 17:00 - 17:45 Race Briefing / Overview of the contest
  • 18:00 END

Schedule - May 9th

  • 08:45 - 09:30 AI Team Briefing

    For those who didn’t come on 8th

  • 09:30 - 12:00 Human vs Human FPV Race

    Format: 5 mins per driver – We have a total of 36 time slots for race/training. Each participating AI team will also be given 1 time slot to train their car on the track. So we can invite around 24 human driver to take the challenge.

    In the 5 min human-race, drivers have 2 practise laps and 3 laps to lodge their best time in the time trial. The fastest single lap time wins.

    Notes:

     

    1. You will be racing using FPV goggles provided by us
    2. You will race from a first person view
    3. We will provide you with the FPV race cars which are also Donkeycars
    4. The top 3 human drivers will be invited to the race next day (AI vs human).

  • 12:00 - 14:30 LUNCH BREAK
  • 14:00 - 16:00 Free Practice for AI Teams

    Track is exclusively reserved for the team to train and test their car

  • 18:00 END

Schedule - May 10th

  • 09:00 - 12:00 AI Time Trials

    Each team is given 1-2 chance (@5 minutes) for the time trial. First come first serve. The team should register their attempt trackmaster and trackmaster will assign a timeslot to them.

  • 12:00 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
  • 14:00 - 16:00 AI vs AI Head to Head

    2 car head to head. Collisions sorted on the spot and continue. First one to finish 5 laps wins.

  • 16:00 - 16:30 AFTERNOON BREAK
  • 16:30 - 17:30 AI vs Human Finals

    2 car head to head (one AI vs one human). Collisions sorted on the spot and continue. First one to finish 5 laps wins.

  • 17:30 - 18:00 Final Judging

    2 car head to head (one AI vs one human). Collisions sorted on the spot and continue. First one to finish 5 laps wins.

  • 18:30 PRIZE GIVING

    On stage at the closing ceremony in Track 1

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Organizer

Website: https://www.robocarstore.com/

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