Project: #96 F1/10 Autonomous Racing Course and Competition Progress Report - Reporting Period Ending: March 30, 2018 Principal Investigator: Rahul Mangharam Status: Active Start Date: July 1, 2017 End Date: June 30, 2018 Research Type: None Grant Type: Education Grant Program: FAST Act Grant Cycle: 2017 Mobility21 UTC Progress Report (Last Updated: April 17, 2018, 8:38 a.m.) % Project Completed to Date: 80 % Grant Award Expended: 80 % Match Expended & Document: 80 USDOT Requirements Accomplishments We completed the course development, open-source software and reference hardware platform for the racecar. Following this, we successfully conducted the 2nd F1/10 Autonomous Racing Competition in Porto, Portugal (co-located with Cyber-Physical Systems Week) on April 10-11, 2018. The competition was attended by over 200 people with 9 participating teams from Korea, Czech Republic, Sweden, Impacts We are hosting the competition twice a year in two conference venues - Cyber-Physical Systems Week (April) and Embedded Systems Week (October). This exposes us to over 800 people. The platform has been adopted by over 32 universities and companies who are actively doing research on autonomous vehicles - perception, planning, control, and coordination. Other Website - http://f1tenth.org The website has details on how to Build, Drive and Race the autonomous vehicle platform. It is a collaborative and open-source effort with several university and industry partners. The course has been taught in University of Virginia, UT Austin, Clemson University, and several others. The competition participation is increasing at a very good rate and the community interest in joining the competition is very high. We are supplying new teams with a power-distribution board and a chassis, so they can get started in less than a day. New Partners Nvidia autonomous driving Mathworks University of Modena, Italy University of Porto, Portugal Issues Project is going according to plan.