What if an autonomous vehicle can drive a race car faster than a human around a track?This is the query that the Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racas League (A2RL) is looking to answer. The series experienced an aborted run in its inaugural run last year, but continues to expand its generation into a more in-depth festival in 2025. I spoke with Stephane Timpano, CEO of Aspire, who created A2RL, about what has gone wrong and what came before and what came before and what happened and what happened and what the future of the incumbent.
“We had the first race in April 2024,” said Tipano. Only one year after the resolution to create A2RL, which is phenomenal given the demanding technological situations involved. “The race did not happen as planned. But it is a challenge of R&D D. We knew that some things would be fine and that others not so well. We have also taken many dangers because there are other organizations that are executed in autonomous careers. »Aspire is a component of the complex technologies of Abu Dhabi (ATRC) on complex technologies, the country’s innovation agency. Aspire has a giant portfolio of futuristic projects, which includes demanding primary situations if A2DL is the maximum in bold so far.
“No one else has led the restriction of putting several cars in an F1 circuit at the same time,” says Tipano. “We knew that when doing this, we put the cars and groups in the threat of an incident. But what we are informed of this type of incident is very useful, since it is helping us perceive how long -term incidents. A2RL has put This informed long -term races. ” The 8 groups we had last year are already shown for this year, and we have 4 more groups, which expands our global canopy. This includes groups from the United States, Europe, Asia and Japan. CUSTIA ALL THE PLANET TODAY, BUT ALSO ONLY THE GLOBAL OF R
One of the A2RL teams comes from the autonomous laboratory at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, led through Dr. Majid Khonji. “The 2024 A2RL race had three parts: timed laps, attack and defense, and multi-vehicle challenge,” says Dr. Khonji. “With timed laps, you want to complete a lap as quickly as possible. Attack and Protect is between two cars, who outmaneuver and defend their position. The vehicle challenge extends this to more cars. It was our first participation, and it was unexpected to see how technologies fail at top speed. Things that paintings at low speed cave in when they are pushed. »»
“We crush our cars, really twice due to location errors, however, we control to succeed at a speed of 173 kilometers consistent with the time, which is respectable,” explains Dr. Khonji. “Our tour time was a decent, if not exceptional, two minutes 50 seconds. ” A2RL uses a car that demanding formula with formula with 550 HP formula compared to 1,000 HP of Formula 1, so that the times in the turn will be consistent even with a human conductor. The last Formula E 469 HP car. The autonomous formula of the University of Khalifa is also a software completed outside the gates of the race. “Our object tracker is classified number one in Waymo and Kitti knowledge sets,” said Dr. Khonji. “These are reference points that compare algorithms in the stick with the formula. ” However, A2RL is more a matter of immediate decisions than the complicated autonomy required through urban autocorption. “In the race, we review especially to follow a path. We design the offline. Ai is blind. We do not use any control theory of fantasy AI. We will also have to build the device so that if it fails, it can recover. This is a domain that these races literally improve. Since you literally have to be very immediate and react quickly, you have less time for calculation, so the maximum groups do not use fantasy concepts in a race. The calculation will have to be in the car. »
Khalifa University will continue to compete as A2RL expands. “Since last year, we’re now planning a multi-year engagement with multiple races,” says Timpano. “We went to Japan a few weeks ago in Suzuka for a demo. One car ended up on the wall, which happens in these situations. We have a new race in April 2025, which is going to be like the one we did last year but with four additional teams. This time, we’re going to have more of a show. We’re going to bring more human aspects to it. Last year we had Daniel Kvyat, a human driver racing against an autonomous car. At the time, we had a little bit less than 10 second difference between the two cars, which was incredible.”
Timpano thinks autonomous cars can do better, however. “We’re trying to reduce the distance between human and machine, and we’re going to have multiple cars doing that at the same time,” he says. “We’re adding complexity. We’re trying to push the R&D envelope on finding new ways of doing autonomous driving in a more efficient and precise way, at higher speed in more complex environments. The second element is building up trust. This is the most important word here for the public. We need people to start being convinced that autonomous solutions bring a big value to the mobility of tomorrow. This is going to change the cities as we know them today, because they are not sustainable anymore. Too many people are concentrated into small areas. You need to have people be confident to put themselves on an autonomous bus, and to put their kids in an autonomous car or taxi. If they see Super Formula cars at 250 kilometers per hour doing well, then you start building up trust.”
A2RL will expand its global success in 2025.
“The addition of humans opposed to AI is the position in which the interest is more commonly people, since the former champions of the formula 1 breed oppose the device,” explains Tumpano. This recalls the ancient primary challenges, since when Deep Blue of IBM defeated Gary Kasparov in Chess, Watson from IBM won the game of danger games, and Deepmind alphage defeated the number one player in the world. “Daniel Kvyat had the opposite running courage to a device where you cannot control its performance. Many drivers have refused to do so because they do not feel consolidated having a device to run a few meters. »
A2RL also envisions systems being built rather than replacing conductors. “We would possibly have race cars with champion drivers helping the generation to be in accordance with the formation,” Timpano says. “We would all like to see drivers run at 400 kilometres consistent with the time, but today we can’t, because drivers can’t do this in cars. Tomorrow we can make this possible.
Monomist corridors are not the only cars in which A2RL works. “The League has with the cars, because that is what other people like, and it is visible,” says Tipano. “But we also organize the same type of festival with drones. We have an association with the Drones Champions League, which is one of the main drones pilot leagues. With them, we have evolved a drone in which we have put in autonomous kits. Auto Race. array where we have, at this stage, study racing groups and groups together.
A2RL is now in drone races.
Even if the first A2RL race was a diverse experience, Tipano foresees an exciting long career for autonomous races. “In ten years, we could not surprise us if there is a league with autonomous cars and human cars, and perhaps even in the same team” He says. “You want a lot to take place between now and then, with technology, protection, protection and performance, but we on trips. “
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