Wanted: Best piloted model car
Technology and Innovation Communications Oliver Strohbach Tel.: +49 841 89-45277 E-mail: [email protected] www.audi-mediaservices.com/en Wanted: Best piloted model car Audi hosting student competition: top prize of 10,000 euros Participants develop software for piloted model cars Online at: www.audi-autonomous-driving-cup.com Ingolstadt, March 11, 2015 – Audi is taking piloted driving to model cars: Ten student teams will face off in the Audi Autonomous Driving Cup to find the best piloted model car. Audi provides the hardware – a 1:8-scale Audi Q5* – and the young experts develop the software. Audi is hosting the inaugural Driving Cup, which is intended primarily for students in computer science, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. Ten teams will be competing against each other at a public event at the Audi Museum Mobile on March 25 and 26, 2015. “Our competition course will serve as the proving ground for the young experts’ software. Oncoming and intersecting traffic, tricky parking situations and obstacles that suddenly appear will put their programming precision to the test,” said Björn Giesler, one of the organizers of the competition. An electric motor accelerates the all-wheel-drive model cars up to 40 km/h (24.9 mph). The students are provided with a basic software package for the competition, from which they develop their own software architecture that processes sensor data to interpret the situation and control the car accordingly. The goal for the student teams is to complete the course quickly with as few errors as possible. Points are deducted for accidents, lost time and imprecise execution. The team scoring the most points wins 10,000 euros. Second prize is 5,000 euros; third prize 1,000 euros. The resemblance between the model cars and their full-size counterparts is more than just visual: The development environment for the software is the exact same one used to test driver assistance systems. According to Giesler, some of the challenges are in fact very similar to those encountered with automobiles in production development. “The measurement sensors in the models have to work just as precisely as those in their big brothers. We are excited to see the innovative solutions the students come up with.” A video about the Audi Autonomous Driving Cup 2015 can be found here. – End – *The collective fuel consumption of all models named above and available on the German market can be found in the list provided at the end of this MediaInfo. 1/2 Fuel consumption of the models named above: Audi Q5: Combined fuel consumption in l/100 km: 8.5 – 4.9** (27.7 – 48.0 US mpg) Combined CO2 emissions in g/km: 199 – 129** (320.3 – 207.6 g/mi) **The fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of a vehicle vary due to the choice of wheels and tires. They not only depend on efficient utilization of fuel by the vehicle, but are also influenced by driving behavior and other non-technical factors. In 2014, the Audi Group delivered approximately 1,741,100 cars of the Audi brand to its customers. The company achieved revenue of €53.8 billion and an operating profit of €5.15 billion in 2014. Audi operates globally in more than 100 markets and has production facilities in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm (Germany), Győr (Hungary), Brussels (Belgium), Bratislava (Slovakia), Martorell (Spain), Kaluga (Russia), Aurangabad (India), Changchun and Foshan (China) and Jakarta (Indonesia). The brand with the Four Rings will start producing cars in Curitiba (Brazil) this year and in San José Chiapa (Mexico) in 2016. Wholly owned subsidiaries of AUDI AG include quattro GmbH (Neckarsulm), Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. (Sant’Agata Bolognese, Italy) and sports motorcycle manufacturer Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A. (Bologna, Italy). The company currently employs approximately 80,000 people worldwide, thereof around 58,000 in Germany. Total investment of about €24 billion is planned from 2015 to 2019 – primarily in new products and sustainable technologies. Audi is committed to its corporate responsibility and has anchored the principle of sustainability for its products and processes in its strategy. The long-term goal is CO2 neutral mobility. 2/2
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