The Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano is racing into the future by entering into a two-year agreement with Michigan State University (MSU) to participate in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC).
IAC officially launched in 2019 and brings together academic institutions and public-private partnerships to challenge university students from across the globe to invent and test a new generation of automated vehicle software — including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) — to operate fully autonomous race cars.
During the IAC, race cars operate autonomously — without a driver — at speeds near 200 mph. Since its inception, the challenge has grown from a single race to a series of international racing events. The Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano joined the future of racing program under the team name PoliMOVE and has won four of the five IAC annual racing series.
With the addition of MSU, the team will now race under the name PoliMOVE-MSU, with the next race slated for next summer in Monza, Italy, and the presentation of the new AV-24 PoliMOVE-MSU car on January 11, 2024 during the Consumer Technology Association’s annual CES convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The PoliMOVE-MSU team will race with a Dallara-built AV-24 — the official vehicle of the IAC — retrofitted with hardware and controls to enable automation, with artificial intelligence drivers programmed by team members. The collaborative team will be led by Prof. Sergio Savaresi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano with support from Prof. Daniel Morris from the departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering – MSU. Both universities will have student researchers contributing as well.
Sensor and software developments the team innovates through this challenge will lead to increased safety and performance in motorsports and commercial transportation, with a special focus on solving ‘edge case’ scenarios which are problems that occur only in extreme operating environments, such as avoiding obstacles at high speeds while maintaining vehicular control. Beyond accelerating the pace of autonomous, high-speed innovation, IAC works to attract and inspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math talent.
IAC officially launched in 2019 and brings together academic institutions and public-private partnerships to challenge university students from across the globe to invent and test a new generation of automated vehicle software — including advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) — to operate fully autonomous race cars.
During the IAC, race cars operate autonomously — without a driver — at speeds near 200 mph. Since its inception, the challenge has grown from a single race to a series of international racing events. The Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano joined the future of racing program under the team name PoliMOVE and has won four of the five IAC annual racing series.
With the addition of MSU, the team will now race under the name PoliMOVE-MSU, with the next race slated for next summer in Monza, Italy, and the presentation of the new AV-24 PoliMOVE-MSU car on January 11, 2024 during the Consumer Technology Association’s annual CES convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The PoliMOVE-MSU team will race with a Dallara-built AV-24 — the official vehicle of the IAC — retrofitted with hardware and controls to enable automation, with artificial intelligence drivers programmed by team members. The collaborative team will be led by Prof. Sergio Savaresi from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering – Politecnico di Milano with support from Prof. Daniel Morris from the departments of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering – MSU. Both universities will have student researchers contributing as well.
Sensor and software developments the team innovates through this challenge will lead to increased safety and performance in motorsports and commercial transportation, with a special focus on solving ‘edge case’ scenarios which are problems that occur only in extreme operating environments, such as avoiding obstacles at high speeds while maintaining vehicular control. Beyond accelerating the pace of autonomous, high-speed innovation, IAC works to attract and inspire the next generation of science, technology, engineering and math talent.