RoboRacer Sim Racing League @ IROS 2026¶
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 31st RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition at IROS 2026 will write software for a 1:10 scaled autonomous racecar to fulfill the objectives of the competition: drive fast but donβt crash!
This time, we are organizing the sixth RoboRacer Sim Racing League, which leverages AutoDRIVE Ecosystem to model and simulate the digital twin of a 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 IROS 2026 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 website for 31st RoboRacer Autonomous Racing Competition, which will be held in person at IROS 2026. You can always register and compete in both physical and virtual competitions!
Organizers¶
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| Dr. Rahul Mangharam | Dr. Venkat Krovi | Dr. Johannes Betz | Dr. John Dolan |
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| Dr. Wenshan Wang | Chinmay Samak | Tanmay Samak | Ahmad Amine |
Timeline¶
Warning
Timeline is subject to change. Please keep checking this page for any updates.
| DATE | EVENT |
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| Aug 05, 2026 | Registration Opens |
| Sep 06, 2026 | Registration Closes |
| Sep 12, 2026 | Qualification Round Submission |
| Sep 13, 2026 | Qualification Round Evaluation |
| Sep 14, 2026 | Qualification Results Declared |
| Sep 16, 2026 | Competition Track Released |
| Sep 19, 2026 | Final Race Submission |
| Sep 20, 2026 | Final Race Evaluation |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 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: Standings of all the qualified teams will be released.
- Competition Track: 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: Standings of all the teams for the final race will be released.
Info
The RoboRacer Sim Racing League will be held approximately 1 week ahead of IROS 2026 and the performance metrics will be made available to the teams. Discussions are underway with the IROS organizing team to allow teams to analyze and present their approach/results in a short (~10 min) presentation in a special session at IROS 2026.
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:
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Competition Documents
Learn about the competition rules and technical aspects of the framework.
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Docker Containers
Download base container images for the competition and start developing your algorithms.
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Local Resources
Get started with the competition framework locally, and worry about containerization later.
AutoDRIVE Simulator:
exploreLinux | Windows | macOSpracticeLinux | Windows | macOScompeteLinux | Windows | macOSAutoDRIVE Devkit:
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Quick Links
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
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 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 |
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| 01 | bracavisionai | Luis Bracamontes | Personal | Mexico |
| 02 | GhostLine Racing | Shreyash Kinhikar | Personal | India |
| 03 | VectorDrive | Abdulrahman Saadeldin | Personal | Egypt |
| 04 | JARVIS | Rohit Balaji N | SRM Institute of Science and Technology | India |
| 05 | Siga Siga Racing Team | Kirill Smirnov Nikita Fokin Nikolay Mikolaychuk |
K. Smirnov Robotics LTD | Cyprus |
| 06 | Lunia | Zehao Wang | KU Leuven | Belgium |
| 07 | We ain't slippin | Niklas Holle | Personal | Germany |
| 08 | Cedric Hollande | Cedric Hollande | xLAB, University of Pennsylvania | United States of America (USA) |
| 09 | NTU DeepSpeed | Ting-Ju Chen Baba Purandara Moolya Chennupati Sri Siva Sai Abhiram Eduardo Fernandes de Conto Kah Lok Wong Mu-En Li Raditya Chema Hafizh Pradigta S Sarvajana Hari Yun-Tung Lee |
Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
| 10 | Traxon Racing | Jackson Yanek | Personal | United States of America (USA) |
| 11 | ARC | Ram Charan Akula | Personal | India |
| 12 | Penn RoboRacer | Keshav Mohta | University of Pennsylvania | United States of America (USA) |
| 13 | F1A | Shadow Ri Sonic Ri |
F1A | Egypt |
| 14 | XOYO | Shashank Chaarvi Santhosh Dhanalaxmi |
M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences | India |
| 15 | Huginn & Muninn | Aditya Choudhary | Personal | United States of America (USA) |
| 16 | E-Rally | Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed El Ashiry Morad Singer |
Helwan University | Egypt |
| 17 | Hakuna_Matata | Shalem Bakth Singh Badampudi Venkata Manvitha Tatikonda Anudeep Dondapati Venkata Karthik Thallam |
Personal | India |
| 18 | armoured_alpha | Akash Kanagala | nxtwave | India |
| 19 | Innomer | Mann Bhanushali | Personal | India |
| 20 | Barq Racing | Abdullah Naeem Muhammad Usman Adil Mubashir Chaudhry |
Personal | Pakistan |
| 21 | Prakhar | Prakhar Dwivedi | Personal | India |
| 22 | Element | Sree Aslesh Penisetty | Personal | United States of America (USA) |
| 23 | Shiam | Shiam Chuttoo | Personal | United Kingdom (UK) |
| 24 | singleroom | Manish Rasamalla | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | India |
| 25 | CEM Navigators | Shyam Rithin Suresh Kumar Chitra Kaverappa Manikandan Ganesan |
SRM Institute of Science and Technology | India |
| 26 | Torque Dirty To Me | Krishna Chochipatla | Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | India |
| 27 | Phantom Arrow | Rohit Hemachandra Pillai | Personal | Germany |
| 28 | APEX | Dongbeen Jeon Youngrok Kim Joonhyung Im Minji Jung Jaehyung Choi |
Inje University | South Korea |
| 29 | Solo Dev | Yiu Wa Hung | Personal | Germany |
| 30 | MonacoF1 | Emiliano Alban Michel Hidalgo Gerardo Puga Rodrigo Alcobero Ignacio Bugueno |
Ekumen | Argentina, Chile, Ecuador |
| 31 | Tk | Fangfei Fan | The University of New South Wales | Australia |
| 32 | YallaAE | Bushra AlShehhi | MBZUAI | United Arab Emirates (UAE) |
| 33 | Botzilla | Nilum Mudaliarachchi Tharusha Udana |
University of Moratuwa | Sri Lanka |
| 34 | DaVinci | Ishan Bala | Personal | India |
| 35 | Bhuna Khichuri Racers | Al Mahir Ahmed | BRAC University | Bangladesh |
| 36 | SpaceRacer | Haorong Yuan Shengyao Lan |
Shenzhen University | China |
| 37 | IDEA_LAB | Junseo Jang Jong-ah Ha Jaehyeong Kim |
Gyeongsang National University | South Korea |
| 38 | Go-Go-Taro | Soya Aoki | Personal | Japan |
| 39 | Team Proboticists | Srinjoy Ganguly Ankit Meda Deepak G Vidit Gupta Priyanshu Bansal Vansh Lohia |
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | India |
| 40 | FirstName LastName | Sandip Das | Personal | India |
| 41 | Penguin | Private | Personal | Madagascar |
| 42 | Mamba | Hariharan Ravichandran | Personal | India |
| 43 | rulim | Mikhail Shulga | MIPT | Russia |
| 44 | Assiut Motorsport | Ahmed Ashraf Hashem Steven Joseph Ibrahim Sama Ahmed Mohammed Yasser Mohammed Sajda Mohammed Shaker Aisha Ahmed Mohamed Seif Eldaby Jana Mahmoud Fahmy Mohamed Fouad Elgohary Mohamed Emadeldeen Doaa Essam Abdulrahman Yasser Fouad |
Assiut University | Egypt |
| 45 | ASUF1Tenth | Mohamed Hany Moaz Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud Belal Anas |
Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University | Egypt |
| 46 | Light Year | Aahan Kumbham | Panther Creek High School | United States of America (USA) |
| 47 | Sagol | JoonCheol Park Jiyul Park |
Personal | South Korea |
| 48 | UNISAFE | Jaechan Shin Sunhwi Kim |
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) | South Korea |
| 49 | *whoosh* | Adham Fayad | Personal | Egypt |
| 50 | Autonomous Ground Vehicle | Jinansh Dalal Abhishek Lakote Aryan Pokhriyal Mahin Sankleja Netra Nandankar Oishi Nandi Ratharv Rathore Rohan Singh Shrey Nayakpara Siddharth Sreejith Tanishq Saxena Uday Kalyan S Uddipto Mandal Yash Shah Yug Bargaway |
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | India |
| 51 | Rostamza_JKU_ITS | Aida Rostamza | Johannes Kepler University Linz | Austria |
| 52 | Apex Autonomy | Prajwal Thakur Alvin Cheriyan |
Personal | India |
| 53 | Team Abhiyaan | Alan Royce Gabriel Samuel Ashwaat Tarun Thirukumarsubbiah Shriraam Madhav Pradeep Yash Purswani Vishal Senthilkumar Nikhilram Siddharth R Deva Kaushik |
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | India |
| 54 | Ξ 2RQ | Krishn Singh | Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | India |
| 55 | FEBAuto | Pranav Bhatt | University of California, Berkeley | United States of America (USA) |
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¶
Each team is expected to submit a containerized version of their autonomous racing software stack. Submissions for each phase of the competition will be handled separately.
Note
We expect that upon running your submitted container, all the necessary nodes should start up (the autodrive_devkit API we have included as well as your team's racing stack). Once we hit the Connection Button on the Menu Panel of AutoDRIVE Simulator, the simulated vehicle should start running. Please make sure that you include all the necessary commands (for sourcing workspaces, setting environment variables, launching nodes, etc.) within the entrypoint script (autodrive_devkit.sh file) provided within the autodrive_roboracer_api container. Please do NOT use ~/.bashrc or other means to automate the algorithm execution! Competition organizers should be able to start additional bash session(s) within your submitted container (without your codebase executing every time a new bash session is initialized) for data recording and inspection purposes. Also, make sure to add detailed instructions to your Docker Hub repository overview, which explains how to download (specific tag) and run your container image step-by-step.
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.
Warning
Phase 1 submission window will close on Sep 12, 2026 (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.
Warning
Phase 2 submission window will close on Sep 19, 2026, 2026 (anywhere on Earth). Please contact Chinmay Samak or Tanmay Samak if you have any questions.
Results¶
Phase 1: Qualification
The following teams have qualified for the final time-attack race. Here are the official standings:
| RANK | TEAM NAME | RACE TIME | COLLISION COUNT | ADJUSTED RACE TIME | BEST LAP TIME | VIDEO |
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| 01 | π NTU DeepSpeed | 49.83 s | 0 | 49.83 s | 4.94 s | YouTube |
| 02 | π IDEA_LAB | 60.99 s | 0 | 60.99 s | 6.07 s | YouTube |
| 03 | π Penguin | 64.61 s | 0 | 64.61 s | 6.45 s | YouTube |
| 04 | π Barq Racing | 65.67 s | 0 | 65.67 s | 6.49 s | YouTube |
| 05 | π E-Rally | 67.33 s | 0 | 67.33 s | 6.67 s | YouTube |
| 06 | π Team Proboticists | 70.72 s | 0 | 70.72 s | 6.97 s | YouTube |
| 07 | π Ξ 2RQ | 72.72 s | 0 | 72.72 s | 7.13 s | YouTube |
| 08 | π bracavisionai | 75.76 s | 0 | 75.76 s | 7.45 s | YouTube |
| 09 | π FirstName LastName | 81.76 s | 0 | 81.76 s | 8.12 s | YouTube |
| 10 | π Bhuna Khichuri Racers | 83.14 s | 0 | 83.14 s | 8.28 s | YouTube |
| 11 | π CEM Navigators | 74.28 s | 1 | 84.28 s | 7.32 s | YouTube |
| 12 | π Assiut Motorsport | 84.65 s | 0 | 84.65 s | 8.56 s | YouTube |
| 13 | π Go-Go-Taro | 85.81 s | 0 | 85.81 s | 8.49 s | YouTube |
| 14 | π Autonomous Ground Vehicle | 77.82 s | 1 | 87.82 s | 7.53 s | YouTube |
| 15 | π MonacoF1 | 88.79 s | 0 | 88.79 s | 8.86 s | YouTube |
| 16 | π Team Abhiyaan | 92.56 s | 0 | 92.56 s | 9.10 s | YouTube |
| 17 | π APEX | 77.68 s | 2 | 97.68 s | 7.15 s | YouTube |
| 18 | π Penn RoboRacer | 99.99 s | 0 | 99.99 s | 9.98 s | YouTube |
| 19 | π Cedric Hollande | 70.35 s | 3 | 100.35 s | 6.80 s | YouTube |
| 20 | π Light Year | 105.02 s | 0 | 105.02 s | 10.41 s | YouTube |
| 21 | π Sagol | 101.41 s | 1 | 111.41 s | 9.24 s | YouTube |
| 22 | π UNISAFE | 103.85 s | 1 | 113.85 s | 9.03 s | YouTube |
| 23 | π YallaAE | 116.43 s | 0 | 116.43 s | 11.52 s | YouTube |
| 24 | π rulim | 117.05 s | 0 | 117.05 s | 11.70 s | YouTube |
| 25 | π FEBAuto | 82.26 s | 4 | 122.26 s | 7.91 s | YouTube |
| 26 | π Innomer | 124.42 s | 0 | 124.42 s | 12.13 s | YouTube |
| 27 | π SpaceRacer | 150.30 s | 0 | 150.30 s | 14.78 s | YouTube |
| 28 | π Siga Siga Racing Team | 181.55 s | 0 | 181.55 s | 17.84 s | YouTube |
| 29 | π We ain't slippin | 192.02 s | 0 | 192.02 s | 19.01 s | YouTube |
| 30 | π armoured_alpha | 205.28 s | 0 | 205.28 s | 20.45 s | YouTube |
| 31 | π ASUF1Tenth | 257.88 s | 0 | 257.88 s | 25.69 s | YouTube |
| 32 | π F1A | 317.90 s | 0 | 317.90 s | 31.78 s | YouTube |
Phase 2: Competition
Phase 2 results will be posted here on Sep 21, 2026.
Summary¶
A summary video will be posted here after the competition.