ESTACA Wins First Prize in 2 UTAC Challenge Categories
2 student teams took part in this year’s UTAC Challenge for autonomous and connected mobility. They both won first prize in their category!
A challenge to develop skills in driverless vehicles
The UTAC Challenge is the first student competition organized in a real-life environment, dedicated to the future of autonomous, connected mobility. It involves the partial or complete design of a vehicle, or of systems and functions linked to future mobility. Teams can compete in several categories, such as autonomous parking, pedestrian detection, autonomous driving…
Demonstrations are either dynamic, static or virtual (simulation tool), over the course of a day, at the UTAC-Monthléry autodrome.
The challenge is organized by UTAC with the support of the Société des Ingénieurs de l’Automobile (SIA).
A team on autonomous driving, pedestrian and traffic light detection
This year, a team of 4 students from the Autonomous Vehicles and Connected Systems engineering apprenticeship program worked on the ESTACA’Lab Twizy, focusing on urban driving. They designed and implemented systems enabling the Twizy to follow a predefined trajectory autonomously, detect pedestrians and communicate with a traffic light in advance.
The real-life demonstrations on the day and the results of the simulations won them first prize in their category!
A team on autonomous parking
The 2nd team, made up of engineering students from the Automotive program, worked on autonomous parking. This team built on what had been developed the previous year, while developing a new system enabling the car to find its way around, not using GPS, but by modeling the environment in real time using the vehicle’s on-board cameras.
This new solution also won them 1st place in the parking category.
Congratulations to them, and to the teacher-researchers who supervised these teams throughout the year. Many thanks also to the manufacturers who supported these projects.
