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F1TENTH Sim Racing League @ CDC 2024

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 22nd 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
Oct 22, 2024 (5:30 – 6:30 PM EDT) Online Orientation 1
Nov 19, 2024 (5:30 – 6:30 PM EDT) 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


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

    Competition Rules

    Technical Guide

  • Docker Containers


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

    AutoDRIVE Simulator: explore | practice | compete

    AutoDRIVE Devkit: explore | practice | compete

  • Local Resources


    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


    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 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

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.