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Indy Autonomous Challenge

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Indy Autonomous Challenge
Indy Autonomous Series
VenueIndianapolis Motor Speedway
LocationSpeedway, Indiana, U.S.
First raceOctober 23, 2021
Distance50 miles (80.5 km)
Laps20
Circuit information
SurfaceAsphalt
Length2.5 mi (4.0 km)
Turns4
Lap record-

The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) is a race with full-scale autonomous race cars happening on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) in October 2021[1][2]. The challenge itself started in November 2019 and consists of different rounds and hackathons were the competing teams need to demonstrate their ability to race autonomously. The teams competing in final race on the IMS use the same vehicle hardware provided by the organizers. The goal of the IAC is purely focus on the development of a full autonomous driving software stack that enables perception, planning and control on the racetrack[3]. In total 1.5 Million USD are provided as prizes for the winning teams [4].

Overview

As a successor of the DARPA Grand Challenge the IAC aims towards providing a challenging environment for the development of autonomous vehicles. University teams are invited to develop software[5] for solving the autonomous driving task but in a challenging environment of a racetrack. Along the competition, teams are using simulation environments [6] and cloud computing to test and prove the maturity of their algorithms[7] . The IAC race cars will drive up to 290 km/h (180 mph) [8], have high lateral and longitudinal accelerations, need to plan their path in an adversarial environment and need drive safe and reliable with low computations times[9]. The IAC is therefore a proving ground for autonomous vehicles [10]. Overall, three main goals are tackled with the efforts at the IAC [11] [12]:

  1. Defining and solving edge case scenarios for autonomous vehicles.
  2. Catalyzing new autonomous driving technologies and innovations.
  3. Engaging the public in the competition to help ensure acceptance.

The efforts of the IAC are led by Energy System Network [13].

Indy Autonomous Challenge Racecar: Dallara IL-15 IAC

For the IAC a special autonomous race car was developed by Clemson University[14] in the Deep Orange Project[15] [16] [17] and was presented at the CES 2021[18]. The race car is based on a Dallara Indy Lights chassis [19] which is enhanced with computation hardware, sensors and controllers[20] [21] to enable the full automation on the racetrack[22]. The vehicle is called "Dallara IL-15 IAC racecar". The race car is a rear wheel drive, powered by an internal combustion engine that produces 335 kW and has a 6-sequential gearbox. To perceive the environment the vehicle is equipped with six monocameras, four Radars, three LiDARs [23] and an RTK GPS. As a main computation unit commercial hardware is used that consists of an Intel Xeon E 2278 GE – 3.30 GHz (CPU), 1x Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000 (GPU) as well as 64GB Ram[24][25]. The cars will be assembled, serviced and maintained by an external company [26].

This race car needs to be purchased by the teams to take part in the final IAC race round 4 and 5.

Timeline, Rounds and Rules

The IAC focuses completely on the development of software for an autonomous race car, no hardware development is involved. The final challenge is to race with this software on the IAC race cars on the Indianapolis motor speedway. Along the way to the final race the teams must complete different rounds and hackathons that will serve as thresholds that competing teams are required to fulfil. The teams can test with the vehicle on both the IMS and The IAC consists of 5 rounds that validate the competing teams capabilities in general and in software before they are allowed to race against head-to-head with the real cars[27].

Round Title Dates/Deadline Explanation Price
0 Registration February 28, 2020 Teams need to register themselves online -
1 Launch February 28, 2020 Submission of a white paper that describes the team, history of automation, idea for the software pipeline etc. -
2 Demonstration May 20, 2020 Teams need to demonstrate the ability to automate a passenger vehicle with one of the two following methods:

1. Submit a two- to three-minute video of a team-supplied and -programmed automated vehicle which

demonstrates a range of functions (e.g. acceleration, deceleration, left/right turn);

2. Compete in the “evGrand Prix Autonomous Series” organized by Purdue University and

sanctioned by the World Karting Association, taking place at the IMS in 2020.

-
3 Simulation Race June 30, 2021 1. Qualifing: Complete 10 virtual solo laps around the IMS oval (~25 miles) on an Organizer-supplied

and standardized automated vehicle simulator in 15 minutes or less (i.e. averaging ≥ 100 MPH avg.).

Performance determines the starting position in the simulation race.

2. Head-to-Head Racing: The teams need to complete 20 virtual laps around the IMS oval (~50 miles)

on an organizer-supplied and standardized automated vehicle simulator in a head-to-head

virtual race among Teams in 30 minutes or less (i.e. averaging ≥ 100 MPH avg.) without impacting other

vehicles’ abilities to compete.

1. Place: $100,000 USD

2. Place: $50,000 USD

4 Race Qualification October 21-22, 2021 1. Usage of driverless Dallara IL-15 IAC racecar

2. Complete 10 solo laps of the IMS (25 miles) in 15 minutes or less (≥ 100 MPH avg.)

3. Complete at least one of those laps in 75 seconds or less. (≥ 120 MPH)

4. Performance determines final race starting position.

-
5 Final Race October 23, 2021 1. Usage of driverless Dallara IL-15 IAC racecar

2. Head-to-head autonomous race

3. The teams must cross the finish line in 25 minutes or less (i.e. averaging ≥ 120 MPH)

4. The race endures 20-lap (~50 mile)

1. Place: $1,000,000 USD

2. Place: $250,000 USD

3. Place: $50,000 USD

Teams

The participation in the IAC is for accredited, tax-exempt colleges and university teams only [28] [29]. After the registration opened on the 5th of November in 2019 in total 45 university teams registered for the IAC. While 6 teams did not submit a white paper for Round 1, 39 teams started in the challenge[30].

Team University Country Round 1

(Launch)

Round 2

(Demonstration)

Round 3

(Simulation Race)

Round 4

(Qualification)

Round 5

(Final Race)

Abhiyaan Indian Institute of Technology Madras  India White Paper Retired
AI Racing Tech[31] University of Hawaii  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 2. Place

Final: DNF

Ariel Team[32] Ariel University  Israel White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 3. Place

Final: DNF

Retired
Autonomous Racing Graz[33] Graz University of Technology  Austria White Paper Video Submission Retired
Autonomous Tiger Racing Auburn University  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
Berkeley MPC Lab University of California, Berkeley  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
Black & Gold

Autonomous Racing[34]

Purdue University  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
United States Military Academy (West Point)  USA
Cavalier Autonomous Racing[35] University of Virginia  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
Crimson Autonomous Racing University of Alabama  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNF
Eagle Autonomous Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
Electric Jays Johns Hopkins University  USA No Submission Retired
Euroracing University of Modena and Reggio Emilia  Italy White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNF
University of Pisa  Italy
Polish Academy of Sciences  Poland
ETH Zurich   Switzerland
Gator Double Dragon University of Florida  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
Kookmin University  South Korea
Go Heels Racing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
Indy Car Poly California Polytechnica State University  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
IUPUI - IITKGP-USB Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur  India
Universidad De San Buenaventura  Colombia
KA-Racing E.V. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  Germany White Paper Retired
KAIST Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  South Korea White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNF
- Kennesaw State University  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
M@Auto University of Michigan - Dearborn  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
MIT-PITT[36] Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 5. Place

Final: 4. Place

University of Pittsburgh  USA
NA-SARATHY Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham  India White Paper Retired
Pegasus +

RIT Autonomous Racing[37]

Colorado State University  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
Western Michigan University  USA
Rochester Institute of Technology  USA
Polimove[38] Politechnico di Milano  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 1. Place

Final: 1. Place

Reveille Racing Texas A&M University  USA White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 4. Place

Final: 3. Place

- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute  USA No Submission Retired
Rutgers RAM Lab Rutgers University  USA No Submission Retired
Spartan Autonomous Michigan State University  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
TUM Autonomous Motorsport[39] Technical University of Munich  Germany White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 2. Place

Final: 2. Place[40]

- University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign  USA No Submission Retired
UCLA University of California, Los Angeles  USA No Submission Retired
UPenn University of Pennsylvania  USA No Submission Retired
Waterloo Autonomous Racing University of Waterloo  Canadian White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: DNS
Wisconsin Autonomous University of Wisconsin-Madison  USA White Paper Video Submission Retired
WUT Driverless Warsaw University of Technology  Poland White Paper Video Submission Semifinal: 1. Place

Final: DNF

Explanations: DNS = Did not Start, DNF = Did not Finish

References

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  11. ↑ "Overview". Indy Autonomous Challenge. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
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  40. ↑ "PoliMOVE Wins the Ansys Indy Autonomous Challenge Simulation Race". www.ansys.com. Retrieved 2021-08-06.

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