The Roboracer Foundation

*Over the last 5 years, F1Tenth has enjoyed tremendous growth and community support. The organization has grown up and we are ready to go beyond just the 1/10th-scale vehicles for broader community-driven engagements. This includes new platform scales and more challenging competitions for a modern AI-enabled autonomy. Stay tuned as we migrate F1Tenth.org and associated Social Media accounts to RoboRacer.ai.

The IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (#ITSC) was a blast! Thanks to Ehsan Hashemi and Jonas M?rtensson for chairing. I co-chaired the Workshops and presented our paper on MEGA-DAgger: Imitation Learning with Multiple Imperfect Experts https://lnkd.in/emx3KpZ6. I enjoyed the good company of Ahmed Hussein, Brendan Morris, Henry Liu, Vahid M., Zhong-Ping Jiang, Hamid Taghavifar, David Isele, Pushkin Kachroo, Shaurya Agrawal and more.

Last week, the ForzaETH race team participated in the F1Tenth Foundation 21st F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix at IROS. ????? At the race, we were faced with extremely grippy carpet floor, requiring teams to extract 100% of performance from both their hardware and software. This was in contrast to the robustness tuning the team had been hard at work with, after experiences with slippery racetracks at past races. Faced with this "out of distribution" environment, the team worked hard on-site, leaving no stone unturned as we sought to shave tenths of seconds from our lap times. Our efforts resulted in a 7.14s lap over the roughly 35m track. This is an average speed of ~5m/s (18kph), significant considering the curvature of the track! The car accelerated at 8 m/s2 and braked at 20 m/s2 – accelerations that mimic full-scale racing. This was sufficient for us to qualify in 2nd place. Unfortunately, in the head-to-head shootout, the team's high-risk, high-reward strategy to minimize laptime bit us as we crashed out of our match which would decide if we would advance to the final. We ended up with a 3rd place finish, behind our competitors Lukasz Sztyber and Scuderia Segfault. Despite this, we still can be proud of our Race Stack, especially in head-to-head mode, where our car demonstrated advanced abilities to estimate, predict, and plan to overtake opponents - made possible by our recent Predictive Spliner publication. We thank the competition organizers Rahul Mangharam, Fran?ois Pomerleau, Chinmay Samak, Tanmay Samak, and look forward to the next race. Race Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/eAMPKxac Predictive Spliner Paper: https://lnkd.in/eR5CGpEd Open Source Race Stack: https://lnkd.in/eWjswFXU Our IROS Race Team: Neil Reichlin, Tian Yi Lim, Benedict Hildisch, Nadine Imholz, Nicolas Baumann, Edoardo Ghignone, Cheng Hu

Grateful to have wrapped up an incredible experience at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi! ?? During the conference, Chinmay Samak and I delivered a presentation on how F1Tenth Foundation and AutoDRIVE Ecosystem can come together to promote reproducibility and benchmarking in robotics research through competitions and digital twinning. Here's a glimpse of what we presented: ?? Presented an overview of F1TENTH and AutoDRIVE Ecosystem and highlighted their individual as well as combined capabilities. Stressed on the open-source nature, and availability of benchmarks, standards, scaffolded experiments, curated datasets, research and education material, software development kits, simulation tools, hardware testbeds, global competitions, detailed documentation and an international community – all ready to support #reproducibility and #benchmarking in robotics research. ?? Discussed the digital twinning of F1TENTH racecars and racetracks using AutoDRIVE Ecosystem, thereby bridging the gap between simulation and reality from both the ends (#real2sim and #sim2real). Described the F1TENTH Sim Racing framework developed using AutoDRIVE Ecosystem, highlighting how we leveraged the best practices like distributed computing, headless and graphical rendering paradigms, and Docker, Inc containerization for dependency management and workload isolation to yield reliable software reproducibility. ?? Highlighted the importance of #data in reproducibility and benchmarking, and demonstrated the framework’s capability to record and replay various data streams in a time-synchronized fashion along with the ability to automate data analysis and decision making. Presented in-depth analysis of race metrics (lap count and time, collision count, total and adjusted race time, best lap time, etc.) and vehicle KPIs (pose, twist, acceleration, wheel displacement, actuator feedbacks, LIDAR pointcloud, FPV camera frame, etc.) using Foxglove. But the adventure didn't quite end there! Chinmay Samak and I also had the incredible opportunity to serve as the race stewards and co-organize the 21st F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix. The event was a thrilling success where innovation and competition collided to push the boundaries of autonomous racing! ?? A heartfelt expression of gratitude to our advisor, Dr. Venkat N. Krovi for his continued support. We are truly grateful for the chance to be a part of such a dynamic community. We had the chance to connect with some of the greatest minds in the field from academia as well as industry, discuss our research and potential engagements. Thank you IROS 2024, for an unforgettable experience! ?? ARMLab CU-ICAR Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research Clemson Automotive Engineering Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Clemson University IEEE IEEE Robotics and Automation Society #IROS2024 #Robotics #AutonomousSystems #AI #DigitalTwins #AutoDRIVE #F1TENTH #Innovation #Research #PhD

???? Ready to Race? Join Us at #CDC2024! ????? We’re excited to announce the F1tenth Competition at CDC 2024 AND the Workshop 19: Opportunities and Challenges with Autonomous Racing! ?? Whether you're into cutting-edge autonomous driving research or want to put your skills to the test in a high-speed competition, this event is for you! ?? Workshop: Dec 15, 2024 ?? 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM ?? Location CDC 2024 @ MiCo, Milan (Italy) ?? F1tenth Physical Competition: On-track action alongside the CDC conference (Dec 16-19)! ?? Topics include: Control challenges in autonomous racing Advances in sensors & perception Real-world applications for autonomous vehicles ?? Key highlights: Race your algorithms in our F1tenth competition! Engage with experts in Control, Autonomous Driving and more. ?? Why attend? Get hands-on experience, learn from the best, and race towards the future of autonomous vehicles! ?? Register now for the workshop and competition – don’t miss this thrilling opportunity! Workshop link: https://lnkd.in/ddJEVkqk F1tenth Competition: https://lnkd.in/dHZYKsRd F1Tenth Foundation #AutonomousDriving #F1tenth #CDC2024 #Racing #AI #Robotics #Innovation #FutureOfDriving #Workshop

The future of robotics is bright! Congratulations to our IROS 2024 Global robotics competitions winners! Your innovative solutions and hard work have pushed the boundaries of what’s possible in robotics and AI. We are inspired by your dedication to advancing technology and innovation for a sustainable future. The teams awarded first place are: - AI Olympics With RealAIGym: MC-PILCO, U. Padova & Mitsubishi ERL - The Earth Rovers Challenge: Seoul National University -Robotic Construction Challenge: Zjunb_Viclab, Zhejiang Univ - euROBIN Manipulation Skill Versatility Challenge “MSVC” Competition: Platonics, TU Delft - Underwater Robotics Challenges: Jalpari, Manipal Academy Dubai - F1 Tenth Autonomous Racing Competition: Dzik Ultimate - IEEE/RAS Quadruped Robot Challenge (QRC): Wongtasi, Zhejiang University - Falcon Monitoring Challenge: RIT Dubai #IROS2024 #Robotics #AI #KhalifaUniversity ?????? ????????? ??????? ????! ??????? ???????? ?? ????????? ???????? ????????? ??? ??????? ????? ????? ???? 2024? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???? ?????????? ?????? ????? ?? ???? ????????? ???????? ??????. ???? ??????? ?? ????? ??????????? ????????? ????? ??????? ??????. ????? ??????? ???????? ?????? ??: - ???????? ?????? ????????? ?? ???? "??? ?? ?? ???": "?? ?? ?????" ?????? ?????? ???????? ?????? ?????????? ?????????? - ????? "?? ???? ?????": ????? ???? ??????? - ???? ?????? ????????: "???? ??? ???" ?????? ??????? - ???? ??????? ??????? ?????? ?? ???????: "?????????" ?"?? ?? ?????" - ????? ????????? ????????: "???????" ? ???????? ??????? ?? ??? - ???? "?? ??? ???" ???????? ????? ???????: "???? ??????" - ???? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????? ?????? ????????? ???????? ??????? ?????? ?????? ???????? ?????????????: "???? ????" ?????? ???????". - ????? ?????? ??????: ???? ??????? ??????????? (???) #?????2024 #????????? #???????_?????? #?????_?????

?? Yet another successful deployment of the ??1?????????? ???????????????????? ???????????? ?????????????????????? @ ?????????2024! ?? ???????? ???????????????? took the gold by staying on the top of the leaderboard throughout the time-trials and the head-to-head races, maintaining flawless runs with zero collisions and setting the fastest lap of the competition well under 7 seconds. ?? ???????????????? ???????????????? secured the silver, demonstrating consistent aggressive performance despite encountering a terrible crash while practicing, which messed up their vehicle’s wheel alignment. During one of the practice sessions, the team pushed their vehicle so much that it resulted in an untipped rollover! ?? ???????????????? claimed the bronze, exhibiting crazy accelerations over the straight and controlled oversteering in the corners. They demonstrated some of the most exciting overtakes while competing for the third position. ?? ?????????? claimed the special award for being the best first-timer, managing to complete multiple laps despite facing communication issues. ?? A special mention to the ???? ??1?????????? ???????? for their dedication and perseverance. As one of the first teams from the UAE, they stood their ground against some highly experienced teams despite having less than 2 months of preparation. Kudos guys, we know you will come back stronger! ??? We hope everyone had a blast during the competition! Looking forward to seeing you at future events, with the next one happening at ?????? 2024 - registration is already open! ???????????????? ???????????? ????????????: https://lnkd.in/ey42ZtMD ?????? ???????????? ????????????: https://lnkd.in/eZ9_vAsA ?? A huge shoutout to all the participants for putting in the hard work throughout the competition, and congratulations to all the winners for pushing the F1TENTH vehicles to their limits! ?? It was a pleasure to serve as the race steward and co-organize this competition alongside Dr. Rahul Mangharam, Dr. Venkat N. Krovi, Dr. Johannes Betz, Dr. Fran?ois Pomerleau, Tanmay Samak, Ahmad Amine, Hongrui Zheng, Dr. Fabio Bonsignorio, Dr. Enrica Zereik, Dr. Bilal Hassan, Bushra Alshehhi, Dr. FADY ALNAJJAR, Dr. Majid Khonji, Dr. Hamad Karki, and Dr. Pedro Lima. F1Tenth Foundation Autoware Foundation AutoDRIVE Ecosystem IEEE IEEE Robotics and Automation Society IROS 2024 Open Robotics #IROS2024 #F1TENTH #AutoDRIVE #Racing #AutonomousDriving #AutonomousRacing #Robotics #AI #Competition

Proud to announce our team and I's participation in the F1Tenth Foundation race at IROS 2024, hosted in Abu Dhabi, UAE for the first time in the Middle East! As one of the first teams ever in the UAE and the Arab World to participate in such a competition, we were able to show performance in a competition that is known to be not that friendly for first-timers, despite having only less than 2 months of preparation. We are going to improve and be even more competitive, so stay tuned for more achievements! An amazing thanks to the team members (including Nevan Thomas, haya chaudhry, Naqiyah Rajkotwala, Salem Al Haddad, and more!) Massive thanks to Khalifa University for its outstanding hosting of IROS 2024, and a massive thanks to competition organizers Rahul Mangharam, Venkat N. Krovi, Tanmay Samak, Chinmay Samak, and many more for the amazing organization of this competition.

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Excited to kickoff IROS'24 with our workshop, competitions and more! Reproducibility and Benchmarking in Robotics Workshop: https://lnkd.in/e9dsuQ3V F1TENTH Physical Racing League: https://lnkd.in/e5zWtJwh F1TENTH Sim Racing League: https://lnkd.in/ehFMT6TJ