Meet the Teams: PoliMOVE, EuroRacing, WUT Driverless, and Wisconsin Autonomous
PoliMOVE
Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI)
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
IAC Team Webpage and Whitepaper
PoliMOVE Official Website
PoliMOVE is part of the MOVE research team from the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingengeria (DEIB) at POLIMI which is the largest school of architecture, design and engineering in Italy. MOVE, founded in 2001, is fully focused on Vehicle Automation & Control.
In the last five years, PoliMOVE team members at the MOVE research group have:
Developed 150+ advanced R&D projects with leading companies including AlfaRomeo, Brembo, Ducati, Ferrari, Hyundai, JLR, Lamborghini, Maserati, MagnetiMarelli, Pirelli…and many others
Published 150+ international scientific papers
Filed 50+ patents
Originated 10 spinoff companies, mostly in the field of vehicular technologies
PoliMOVE team members at MOVE have developed YAPE (Your Automated Pony Express), an advanced self-driving terrestrial-drone for last-mile delivery. Yape is made entirely in Italy and won the German Design Award 2019, one of the world’s most prestigious accolades in the industrial design sector. MOVE’s initiatives encompass more than ground vehicles; the team is also working on the development of fully-autonomous drones for agriculture: vehicles for vineyards! Their ROVITIS drone project was developed in cooperation with a prosecco vineyard near Venice, Italy.
EuroRacing
University of Modena & Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE)
Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
University of Pisa (UNIPI)
Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
ETH Zürich (ETH)
Zürich, Switzerland
Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN)
Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
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Euroracing Official Website
EuroRacing is associated with UNIMORE’s High-Performance Real-Time (HiPeRT) Laboratory. Situated in the Italian Motor Valley, HiPeRT involves 40+ researchers developing algorithmic and software solutions with key strategic partnerships such as NVIDIA, Bosch, Maserati and Ferrari. HiPeRT is a core organizational team of F1/10th autonomous racing competition as well as the scientific advisor to the Driverless Formula SAE UNIMORE team. EuroRacing works with HiPeRT’s Modena Automotive Smart Area (MASA), a 2sqkm open-air urban laboratory for experimentation, research, verification, standardization and certification of autonomous driving technologies, ADAS systems and highly-connected vehicles within the city infrastructure.
EuroRacing includes UNIPI’s Research Centre E. Piaggio, one of Europe’s oldest interdisciplinary technology transfer centers. UNIPI employs experienced researchers in the design, realization and control of complex machines including humanoid robots (such as development of the WALK-MAN robot for the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge), in addition to mobile robots, and industrial manipulators and components (such as robotic hands), as well as competing as Roboteam Italia.
EuroRacing team members from ETH’s Automatic Control Laboratory comprise students and researchers with a variety of backgrounds in robotics and control. The team has a track record of producing top performing autonomous racing systems, from wheel-to-wheel racing for miniature racecars to developing full driving stacks for the Formula Student Driverless cars. Many alumni members of the AMZ Formula Student Driverless team are part of the EuroRacing team; AMZ Driverless won first place in all three Formula Student Germany Driverless competitions.
EuroRacing is associated with PAN which focuses on applying 3D SLAM using GPGPUs (General-Purpose Graphics Processing Units) on mobile robots for interventions in harsh environments and aided in the development of an online localization method based on 3D point clouds for both map and measurements. The team is experienced in competitions such as DARPA VRC, ELROB, Eurathlon, Udacity Challenge, and Self-Racing Cars, and won F1/10th competitions in Turin 2018and New York 2019. PAN team members and industry advisors organize Warsaw Self-Driving Cars meetups and have mentored students in Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree.
WUT Driverless
Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)
Warsaw, Masovia, Poland
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WUT Driverless Official Website
WUT Driverless originates from its Student Robotics Association, KNR (Koło Naukowe Robotyków), where members of the team first started working on a 1:10 scale autonomous car, Selfie. The team was founded 3 years ago by two robotics students, and has grown to as many as 25 members from varied fields including Software, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering. Selfie took 1st place at IARRC (International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition) 2018 in Canada and 2nd place at Carolo-Basic-Cup 2020 in Germany; the team has also competed in the F1/10th racing series.
e-MaksPower is WUT’s fully electric prototype vehicle designed for people with locomotor disabilities. Since December 2019, it is in regular use by Max, a 10-year old originator of the project with muscular dystrophy. Operation of the car is enabled by a joystick connected to an internal drive-by-wire system. WUT Driverless will be building on its existing capabilities to implement a range of automated driving functions.
WUT Driverless is collaborating with Autoware Foundation to establish an integration with ROS 2 and Autoware.Auto, an open-source automated driving project; this integration will be available to all teams participating in the @IAC simulation activities.
Wisconsin Autonomous (WA)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW)
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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Wisconsin Autonomous Official Website
Wisconsin Autonomous is a UW student organization consisting of 30+ undergraduate and graduate students with a support system of many faculty advisors committed to the research and development of autonomous vehicles.
UW’s Phil Myers Automotive Center accommodates the needs of its engineering automotive competition teams. This 50,000 square foot facility includes vehicle and welding exhaust removal systems, and chassis and engine dynamometers, along with fully stocked tool cabinets. UW's Grainger Institute for Engineering provides a professionally staffed machine shop and prototyping center where students can mill, lathe, water-jet cut, laser-cut, and 3-D scan and print.
The rich tradition of UW’s automotive competition teams highlights being crowned champion in international competition 22 times in the last 22 years, including SAE’s Clean Snowmobile Challenge, Baja SAE, Formula SAE, and DOE's FutureCar and FutureTruck Challenges.