Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - July 2022 - 10

Software
Pushing the Boundaries
of Automated Driving
by Bruce Bennett
The Indy Autonomous Challenge stages events in which high
speed defines the operational design domain.
In late April 2022, SAE Media editor Bruce
Bennett spoke with Paul Mitchell, CEO of Energy
Systems Network, a 13-year-old nonprofit organization
that organizes and manages various public-private
partnerships in the energy and transportation
sectors. Energy Systems Network created the Indy
Autonomous Challenge (IAC), a technical competition
involving nine teams from 21 universities
competing in a series of driving challenges to develop
software and systems capable of controlling fully
automated racecars at speed. An edited version of
their exchange:
Clemson University's IAC
racer at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
Explain the Indy Autonomous Challenge and how
it went from concept to reality.
The Indy Autonomous Challenge started out three
years ago as a prize competition. It was hoping to
bring back the excitement of, and the achievements
that occurred, when the DARPA Grand Challenge ran
in the 2004-2005 timeframe. It really jumpstarted the
autonomous-vehicle [development] industry, and we
thought, you know, what could we do that would get
the level of commitment and interest from top universities,
not only across the U.S., but actually make it
global and get international universities involved.
We set it up as a as a prize competition with a
million-dollar prize and we brought university experts
together and helped design the rule set with their input,
which was important. And where we wound up was
that the teams would compete by writing software that
would control a fully autonomous race car running at
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Each of the teams
would be given the same car.
That was different from DARPA. DARPA involved
the teams having to design the car and the software. We
debated that, but came to the conclusion when you're
talking about racecars, it's hard to design a racecar. So the
competition is around the software to control the vehicles.
On October 23, 2021, we ran the first event
at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and gave out
that million-dollar prize to the German team from
Technical University of Munich. At that point, that
was potentially the bookend of the Indy Autonomous
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