Audi Inquire Students To Code Self-Driving Cars [Video]
Audi is taking Piloted Driving to a decidedly smaller level, giving 1:8-scale Q5s to ten pupil teams who must programme their tiny crossovers to compete inward the first Autonomous Driving Cup. The whole affair is kind of similar DARPA’s off-road contest for (full-size) self-driving cars, alone scaled downwards as well as conducted indoors.
Audi’s smart play hither is bespeak students, the adjacent generation of automotive engineers, to tackle the well-nigh pressing issues facing autonomous-car development—namely, programming the vehicle to non alone recognize widely varied route scenarios only too to react accordingly. To ensure that any the High German students figure out is applicable to Audi’s full-scale Piloted Driving experiments, the tiny Q5s’ software-development surround is said to last identical to that used on real-life Audi prototypes.
The pupil teams volition programme their donated micro Q5s to run a large indoor course, on which they’ll consider traffic (as an awesome aside, this “traffic” consists of small-scale Audi race cars), convey to consummate parking tasks, avoid accidents, as well as avoid obstacles. Making things fifty-fifty trickier is speed—the Q5s volition accelerate upwardly to 25 mph during the competition—and the sheer book of complex sensors, which function the same agency equally the sensors inward Audi’s full-size self-driving vehicles.
Look closely, as well as you’ll consider a banking concern of sensors sticking through the lilliputian Q5’s windshield; that’s the 2D/3D camera, which is used to assist the auto discern range, depth of field, as well as color. Four ultrasonic sensors (similar to parking sensors) located at each corner as well as vi infrared sensors assist the vehicle position its proximity to surroundings as well as obstacles, spell a six-axis gyroscope, wheel-speed sensors, as well as a steering-angle sensor assist the auto sympathise its ain movements. Onboard, there’s a 1.7-GHz quad-core processor, ii GB of RAM, an SD-card slot, as well as an open-source Arduino command computer.
