Purdue AI Racing - Dan Williams, Ashley Shaffer and Yuchen Song

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is pretty much the Super Bowl for high-tech. In addition to being a prime stage for the race to dominance of various technologies, this year’s CES featured an actual race: an autonomous racecar competition on the 1.5 mile track at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The event was sponsored by the Indy Autonomous Challenge, where drivers are replaced by sensors, algorithms, and machine learning. The Purdue AI Racing Team took part, speeding around the oval and its 20° banked turns at a team record of 159 mph, as its innovations in control, perception, and decision-making let it hit that speed without compromising safety and performance. The race series gathers global university teams to further the commercialization of fully autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems, and AI, machine learning, and autonomy in general. In this podcast, Purdue AI Racing Team members Dan Williams, Ashley Shaffer, Yuchen Song talk about their day at the track.

 

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