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The Indy Autonomous Challenge: AI Racing in All Its Glory

Watch this video to learn more about the Indy Autonomous Challenge, a new competition featuring the world’s fastest autonomous race cars. Purdue AI Racing recently showcased its vehicle, which reached speeds up to 140 mph.

“This is an amazing achievement and I am extremely proud of the team’s effort,” said Eckhard Groll  , the William E. and Florence E. Perry Head of Mechanical Engineering, and Reilly Professor of Mechanical Engineering. “Motorsports is all about pushing the envelope, and these students and their faculty advisors did just that. We can’t wait to see what they do in the future.”

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ADAS Automotive Autonomy Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs)

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    00:00:00 [Music] The Indy Autonomous Challenge is a spec racing  series. Everybody's got the same sensors,   the same actuators. And it's a competition  really of software developed by the   students to make the car go faster. -We have three LIDARs, three radars,   and six cameras. We integrate them  and we add our own software to it,   interacting with the steering, the throttle, and  the brake. There's a SIM card inside the computer,   and there's an antenna attached to it which  then communicates to the base station computer.  -It's processed on the car at a very high rate,  and then through telemetry, we get to look at   that in our race control. That's one of the crazy  things about this whole sort of autonomous field:   the massive amount of data that these cars can  collect in a relatively short period of time.  

    00:00:53 We practiced extensively and initially found  that we really couldn't go any faster than,   let's say, 110 miles an hour. So the team did  a great job of working through that in a very   sort of systematic and methodical way, you  know, the way engineers should. We analyzed   the data and we felt comfortable to sort of  open up our risk tolerance just a little bit.   That was really all we needed to go faster.  We had a lot of confidence that we would turn   our fastest lap in this competition. We were  pleasantly surprised at what that fastest lap   was. We were at 139.530, or something like  that. It was a thrill for the entire team:   very pleased, very proud. When you look  at where we are now versus where we were,   we have people that have software development  competency, we've got electrical engineers,   and vehicle dynamics, that kind of comes from  the mechanical engineering area. Girding all  

    00:01:47 of this together is the general sort of field  of control systems, and you can study control   systems in really any number of majors. We can  get up and challenge for the very fastest cars   in this series and we're excited to do that.  Always looking to see how we can go faster!