Call for Competition Challenge
The 2023 IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium organizing committee is planning an Autonomous Vehicle competition challenge and looking for volunteers to be part of the organizing team. Researchers and practitioners are welcomed. Below are examples of potential tracks and typical help needed
Track 1: AV Race
- Write the Spec to build the actual track (size, material, layout …). As an example, F1Tenth uses tubes to set tracks, can adopt the same approach or a different one
- Layout example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits
- F1Tenth Material used Example: https://f1tenth.org/learn.html
- Select the simulator to be used by competing teams in preparation for the race (Potential Options Carla Simulator https://carla.org/ ROS RVIZ…)
- Selection of the Robot System: While F1tenth provide a robot system ready to use, for the computer module it is providing Jetson Nvidia only. It is desirable to provide the option for teams to choose between multiple vendors (Nvidia, Qualcomm and Intel boards …), this is challenging to have system with similar mechanical spec (weight, steering power, speed…)
- Nvidia board example: Jetson used in https://f1tenth.org/build.html
- Intel board example: https://up-board.org/
- Qualcomm board example: https://developer.qualcomm.com/qualcomm-robotics-rb5-kit
Track 2: AV Fleet Management
This is a new idea which is not tackled in previous conferences or venues, as such it needs a lot of preparation, the track idea is focusing more on the backend cloud services interacting with a fleet within a specific geographical location. The winner needs to demonstrate the best fleet management algorithm. Choose the right optimization metric (time: number of requests with a time span, power:
- Choose the right optimization metric (time: number of requests with a time span, power: remaining energy in fleet batteries after N number of requests), identify the components to build the backend to submit requests by users, define a common service API for fleet management (implementation specific for each team)
- Investigate whether it is possible to implement the idea in a physical track with 3-4 robots in a fleet or simulation only
- Investigate how to engage audience: For example, for fleet management, an idea could be the conference participants will send uber like requests on cloud platform to go from point A to B in a predefined map
If interested to help in organizing the challenge, please reach
- Rony Ferzli: rony.ferzli@intel.com
- Ignacio Alvarez: ignacio.j.alvarez@intel.com