RoboRacer Sim Racing League @ CDC 2025 and Techfest 2025

About

RoboRacer Autonomous Racing is a semi-regular competition organized by an international community of researchers, engineers, and autonomous systems enthusiasts. The teams participating in the 25th and 26th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competitions at CDC 2025 and Techfest 2025 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 fourth RoboRacer Sim Racing League, which leverages AutoDRIVE Ecosystem to model and simulate the digital twin of an RoboRacer racecar within a virtual racetrack. Please see the accompanying video for a glimpse of the RoboRacer 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 combined CDC 2025 and Techfest 2025 competition, each team will be provided with a standardized simulation setup (in the form of a digital twin of the RoboRacer 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 RoboRacer vehicles, please check out the websites for 25^th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition and 26^th RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition, which will be held in person at CDC 2025 and Techfest 2025, respectively. You can always register and compete in both physical and virtual competitions!

Organizers

Dr. Rahul Mangharam	Dr. Venkat Krovi	Dr. Archak Mittal	Dr. Johannes Betz
Chinmay Samak	Tanmay Samak	Ahmad Amine	Michael Coraluzzi

Timeline

Warning

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

DATE	EVENT
Nov 01, 2025	Registration Opens
Nov 23, 2025	Registration Closes
Nov 28 – Nov 30, 2025	Qualification Round
Dec 01, 2025	Qualification Results Declared
Dec 02, 2025	Competition Track Released
Dec 05 – Dec 07, 2025	Final Race
Dec 08, 2025	Competition Results Declared

Following is a brief summary of each event:

• Registration: Interested teams will register for the Sim Racing League.
• 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.

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.

RoboRacer 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 RoboRacer 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 RoboRacer. Lastly, you can also check out the physical RoboRacer races that are being organized all around the world. For the Sim Racing League, teams will not require a physical RoboRacer 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 RoboRacer 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

• Quick Links

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  Links to be kept at your fingertips, for a smooth ride throughout the competition.

  Schedule: Timeline

  Registration: Form

  Documentation: Rule Book | Tech Guide

  Communication: Slack

  Submission: Phase 1 | Phase 2

  Results: Phase 1 | Phase 2

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. However, a person cannot be a part of more than one team.

Registration Form

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

Registered teams are added to the following table:

SR. NO.	TEAM NAME	TEAM MEMBERS	ORGANIZATION	COUNTRY

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 RoboRacer 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 28, 2025 (anywhere on Earth). 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 RoboRacer 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 05, 2025 (anywhere on Earth). Please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak if you have any questions.

Results

Phase 1: Qualification

Qualification results will be declared on Dec 01, 2025.

RANK	TEAM NAME	RACE TIME	COLLISION COUNT	ADJUSTED RACE TIME	BEST LAP TIME	VIDEO

Phase 2: Competition

Competition results will be declared on Dec 08, 2025.

RANK	TEAM NAME	RACE TIME	COLLISION COUNT	ADJUSTED RACE TIME	BEST LAP TIME	VIDEO

Summary

A summary video will be posted here after the competition.