F1TENTH Sim Racing League @ CDC 2024

About

F1TENTH Autonomous Racing is a semi-regular competition organized by an international community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiasts. The teams participating in the 22nd F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix at CDC 2024 will write software for a 1:10 scaled autonomous racecar to fulfill the objectives of the competition: drive fast but don’t crash!

This time, we are organizing the second F1TENTH Sim Racing League, which leverages AutoDRIVE Ecosystem to model and simulate the digital twin of an F1TENTH racecar within a virtual racetrack. Please see the accompanying video for a glimpse of the F1TENTH digital twins in action.

The main focus of the Sim Racing League is a virtual competition with simulated cars and environments, which is accessible to everyone across the globe. For the CDC 2024 competition, each team will be provided with a standardized simulation setup (in the form of a digital twin of the F1TENTH vehicle, and a digital twin of the Porto racetrack) within the high-fidelity AutoDRIVE Simulator. Additionally, teams will also be provided with a working implementation of the AutoDRIVE Devkit to get started with developing their autonomy algorithms. Teams will have to develop perception, planning, and control algorithms to parse the real-time sensor data streamed from the simulator and generate control commands to be fed back to the simulated vehicle.

The competition will take place in 2 stages:

• Qualification Race: Teams will demonstrate their ability to complete multiple laps around the practice track without colliding with the track bounds at run time.
• Time-Attack Race: Teams will compete against the clock, on a previously unseen racetrack, to secure a position on the leaderboard.

Since the vehicle, the sensors, the simulator, and the devkit are standardized, teams must develop robust racing algorithms that can deal with the uncertainties of an unseen racetrack.

Tip

If you are interested in autonomously racing physical F1TENTH vehicles, please check out the website for 22^nd F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix, which will be held in person at CDC 2024. You can always register and compete in both physical and virtual competitions!

Organizers

Dr. Rahul Mangharam	Dr. Venkat Krovi	Dr. Johannes Betz	Chinmay Samak	Tanmay Samak
Ahmad Amine	Dr. Paolo Burgio	Dr. Maria Prandini	Dr. Martina Maggio	Dr. Alessio Masola
Dr. Filippo Muzzini	Dr. Federico Gavioli	Antonio Russo	Enrico Mannocci

Timeline

Warning

Timeline is subject to change. Please keep checking this page for any updates.

DATE	EVENT
Aug 01, 2024	Registration Opens
Oct 31, 2024	Registration Closes
Nov 08, 2024 (5:30 – 6:30 PM EST)	Online Orientation 1
Nov 22, 2024 (5:30 – 6:30 PM EST)	Online Orientation 2
Nov 30 – Dec 01, 2024	Qualification Round
Dec 02, 2024	Qualification Results Declared
Dec 06, 2024	Competition Track Released
Dec 07 – Dec 08, 2024	Final Race
Dec 09, 2024	Competition Results Declared

Following is a brief summary of each event:

• Registration: Interested teams will register for the Sim Racing League.
• Online Orientation 1: Organizers will explain the competition rules and guidelines, and demonstrate how to use the simulation framework.
• Online Orientation 2: Organizers will check progress of the participating teams and help with any technical difficulties.
• Qualification Round: Teams will demonstrate successful completion of 10 laps around the practice track provided ahead of time.
• Qualification Results Declared: Standings of all the qualified teams will be released.
• Competition Track Released: Organizers will release the actual "competition track", which will be used for the final race. This track may be replicated in the physical race as well.
• Final Race: Organizers will collect containerized algorithms from each team and connect them with the containerized simulator. Performance metrics of each team will be recorded.
• Competition Results Declared: Standings of all the teams for the final race will be released.

Info

The F1TENTH Sim Racing League will be held approximately 1 week ahead of CDC 2024 and the performance metrics will be made available to the teams. Discussions are underway with the CDC organizing team to allow teams to analyze and present their approach/results in a short (~10 min) presentation in a special session at CDC 2024.

Resources

AutoDRIVE is envisioned to be an open, comprehensive, flexible and integrated cyber-physical ecosystem for enhancing autonomous driving research and education. It bridges the gap between software simulation and hardware deployment by providing the AutoDRIVE Simulator and AutoDRIVE Testbed, a well-suited duo for real2sim and sim2real transfer targeting vehicles and environments of varying scales and operational design domains. It also offers AutoDRIVE Devkit, a developer's kit for rapid and flexible development of autonomy algorithms using a variety of programming languages and software frameworks. For the Sim Racing League, teams will develop their autonomous racing algorithms using the AutoDRIVE Devkit to interface with the AutoDRIVE Simulator in real-time.

F1TENTH is an international community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiasts. It is centered around the idea of converting a 1:10 scale RC car into an autonomous vehicle for research and education; check out the documentation to build your own F1TENTH autonomous racecar. Additionally, if you are new to the field of autonomous racing, you can refer to the complete course material, which is open sourced. If you already have some experience with autonomous racing, feel free to delve deeper into the research enabled by F1TENTH. Lastly, you can also check out the physical F1TENTH races that are being organized all around the world. For the Sim Racing League, teams will not require a physical F1TENTH vehicle; however, the learning resources can certainly be useful to get your autonomous racing fundamentals right!

We recommend all the teams interested in participating in the F1TENTH Sim Racing League to get accustomed with the competition. Following are a few resources to get you started:

• Competition Documents

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  Learn about the competition rules and technical aspects of the framework.

  Competition Rules

  Technical Guide

• Docker Containers

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  Download base container images for the competition and start developing your algorithms.

  AutoDRIVE Simulator: explore | practice | compete

  AutoDRIVE Devkit: explore | practice | compete

• Local Resources

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  Get started with the competition framework locally, and worry about containerization later.

  AutoDRIVE Simulator:

  explore    Linux | Windows | macOS

  practice  Linux | Windows | macOS

  compete    Linux | Windows | macOS

  AutoDRIVE Devkit:

  ROS 2

• Orientation Resources

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  Join the online orientation sessions or review what we covered there.

  Orientation 1:

  Meeting Link: Zoom

  Review Links: Recording | Slides

  Orientation 2:

  Meeting Link: Zoom

  Review Links: Recording | Slides

Question

You can post general questions on the AutoDRIVE Slack workspace; this is the preferred modality. Technical questions can be also posted as GitHub Issues or GitHub Discussions. For any other questions or concerns that cannot be posted publicly, please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak.

Registration

This competition is open to everyone around the world - students, researchers, hobbyists, professionals, or anyone else who is interested. A team can consist of multiple teammates. Teams with only one person are also allowed.

Registration Form

Registration for the Sim Racing League is free of cost and separate from the Physical Racing League and the conference registrations themselves. The above form signs you up only for the Sim Racing League, and for its orientation and information sessions. Although you can participate in the Sim Racing League without attending the conference, we strongly encourage all competition participants to attend the conference in person. This will help you connect with the broader AutoDRIVE and F1TENTH communities, and you can also witness/participate in the physical F1TENTH autonomous racing competition!

Registered teams are added to the following table:

SR. NO.	TEAM NAME	TEAM MEMBERS	ORGANIZATION
01	Beryllium	Ronnie Romman	Personal
02	AERObotics	Arif Anjum Muhammed Sharjil	AEROBOTICS
03	Pharst Laps	Olivia Dry Tian Zhao Yitian Chen Amir Ali Farzin	Australian National University
04	SeDriCa-UMIC	Kshitij Vaidya Yash Gupta Manav Jain Parth Agrawal Sahil Kukreja Johan Biju Paawan Nenwani Shivam Yadav	Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
05	Unimelb F1Tenth Racing	Henry Yapeter Matthew Freeman Nathan Ruslim Harry Tauber	The University of Melbourne
06	Donatello	Rahil Bhowal	Personal
07	VAUL	Tommy Bouchard-Lebrun William Fecteau Nicolas Lauzon	Laval University
08	TUM Phoenix	Dean Mercer Zara Zhotabayeva	Technische Universität München
09	Autonomous Motorsports Purdue	Manav Gagvani Alan Kang Sivamurugan Velmurugan Rohan Potta Sangeet Mohan	Purdue University
10	Pegasus	Zeyuan Wang Chao Wang	Personal
11	ARCLab	William Akuffo Joshua Nti Reginald Andrew Sai-Obodai Baron Afutu Joel Osei-Asamoah	Ashesi University
12	YTU AESK	Mahmut Demir Ahmet Çelik İlayda Sena Şahin Furkan Erdoğan Alper Yılmaz Enes Talha Günay Taha İlter Akar Hilal Horasan	Yıldız Technical University Alternative Energy Systems Society
13	MMS Autonomous	Yousef Asal Zaynap Ahmad Omar Ashraf Omar Elsharabasy Abdallah Nabil Ahmed ElShaboury	Mansoura University
14	HUN-REN SZTAKI	Csanád Budai Tamás Széles	HUN-REN SZTAKI
15	bracaai	Luis Bracamontes	Personal
16	Velox	Karun Ashok Kumar	University of Twente
17	Exhausted Lion	Mohamed Alaa	Personal
18	Sahruday Patti	Sahruday Patti	Personal
19	Als F1Tenth Racing	Auriol Ble	Alpha Space Robotics Lab
20	SoloDriver	Hana Nabhan	Personal
21	Daniel's RL Experiment	Daniel Mittelman	Georgia Institute of Technology
22	TURTLEBOT	Jit Ern Lim	Personal
23	TractionX	Ameya Bagal Ananya Das Amizhthni PRK	Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
24	Awareness	Guodong Zhu	Nanjing Forest University
25	Byte Benders	Bhajneet Singh Bedi Yaduraj Jagadeesan	Personal
26	Eigenbots	Shubham Barge Anshuman Jena	Personal
27	__duronto__	Md. Jesan Muhammad Fahim Faisal Abu Nafis Mohammod Noor Rohan Rakibul Islam Rakib	BRAC University, Dhaka Residential Model College
28	MV33F110	Vishwanath R	Personal
29	F1NESSE - Formula 1 Neuro-Enhanced System for Smart Execution	Oscar Guerrero Rosado Joris Kranz Jan Honing Wout Laracker	Radboud University, ROC Nijmegen
30	Baby Driver	Mason Notz	Personal
31	Asturian Kingdom Team	David Miranda Lucía Sánchez Miguel Santamaría	University of Oviedo
32	AsTenth Martin	Ajay Shankar Sriram	UC Irvine
33	Ray C.E.R.S.	Aditya Jambhale Akshat Tambi	SRM Institute of Science and Technology
34	Neutrino	Ahmed Elnely Abdallah Atef Mohamed Abdelmoneam Noran Mohamed Yasmin Khaled Nouran Karam	Egyptian Russian University
35	Zancle E-Drive	Gaetano Pio Pispisa Giovanni Lombardo Simone Castorino	University of Messina, Italy
36	sim_goes_brrrrrr_mha	Marzanul Momenine Maidul Islam Hironmoy Roy Rudra	Personal
37	Inertia	Mushfiqur Rahman Al Mahir Ahmed Suhail Haque Rafi Abrar Ahmed	Personal
38	Assiut Motorsport	Omar Abbas Kareem Salah Mohamed Abd-El-Fattah Ahmed Shehata Doaa Ibrahem Eslam Mohamed Arwa Ibrahim Maotaz Refaat Fajr Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed	Assiut University
39	SELF	Zhuo Ouyang Pengcheng You Chang Liu Yingzhu Liu Chengrui Qu	Peking University
40	Triton AI	Yen-Ru Chen Winston Chou Kevin Shin Samuel Lin Surya Setty Aryan Palaskar	University of California, San Diego
41	Escuderia Brasileira de Veículos Autônomos	Fernando Zolubas Preto Antonio Colombini Neto Felipe Gomes de Melo D'Elia Carlos Alberto Arronte Delgado Francisco Rodrigues Marazia Luccas Barsotti Caio Victor Goveia Freitas	Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo - Brazil
42	Autonomous Ground Vehicle	Shreyansh Kansal Swaminathan S K Yash Sirvi Aditya Srivastava Akshit Goyal Atul Singh Rohan Singh Theyanesh E R Sandip Das Arham J Bhansali Ansh Sharma Samarth G	Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
43	SUST Autodrive	Abul Bashar Raz Md. Redwan Hasan Ehsanul Karim Aslam Md. Tamzid Islam Babul	Shahjalal University of Science and Technology
44	Sabeq	Adham Waleed Abdulrahman Ahmed Nabil Fouda Mostafa Samy	Ain Shams University
45	RapidRabbits	Aryan Iyer Siddhant Diwaker	Personal
46	Orion	U Skanda Aithal Aryan Agarwal Aditya Gupta Aman Kumar Lakshmikanth Nageswar	Personal
47	KOU-Mekatronom	Mehmet Baha Dursun Muvahhid Kılıç Can Ercan	Personal
48	CLUTCH	Emmanuel Korankye Appenteng Adjepong Samuel Akwensivie Kobena Enyam Desmond Hammond	Personal
49	SimRacer	Vinura Wanniarachchi	Personal
50	WaterlooF110	Megnath Ramesh Shaswat Garg Avraiem Iskander Praneeth KVK	University of Waterloo
51	AA LAB	Taha Kocyigit Taha Yigit Erdogan	Bogazici University

Note

The above table will be updated with newly registered teams within a few days of registration. Please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak if you do not see your team entry for more than 7 days after registering.

Submission

Use the secure form below to make your team's submission for Phase 1 (Qualification Round) of the F1TENTH Sim Racing League. Please fill in your team's name and add the link to your team's DockerHub repository containing the autonomous racing stack. If you are using a private repository, make sure to add autodriveecosystem as a collaborator to your repository.

Phase 1 Submission Form

Warning

Phase 1 submission window will close on Nov 30, 2024. Please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak if you have any questions.

Use the secure form below to make your team's submission for Phase 2 (Final Race) of the F1TENTH Sim Racing League. Please fill in your team's name and add the link to your team's DockerHub repository containing the autonomous racing stack. If you are using a private repository, make sure to add autodriveecosystem as a collaborator to your repository.

Phase 2 Submission Form

Warning

Phase 2 submission window will close on Dec 07, 2024. Please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak if you have any questions.

Results

Phase 1: Qualification

To be announced on Dec 02, 2024.

Phase 2: Competition

To be announced on Dec 09, 2024.