Our team is part of the Texas A&M 12th Unmanned Team that participates in the AutoDrive Challenge, a three-year competition sponsored by General Motors and the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) that allows university teams to develop and demonstrate their own autonomous vehicle.
Among 43 institutional applications, Texas A&M University is fortunate to be selected to participate the competition as one of the final eight teams. General Motors generously donates each team a Chevy Bolt hatchback with drive-by-wire protocol open to participating teams. Each team has to come up with its own design of perception, planning, decision, and control modules by solving computational, electrical, and mechanical issues to cope with real world challenges in building a level-4 autonomous vehicle.
After taking 1st place in the overall dynamic event of the first AutoDrive Challenge, the 12th Unmanned has been selected to compete in the 2nd AutoDrive Challenge, which is scheduled to begin in fall 2021.
Texas A&M University’s team took first place in the overall dynamic event during the fourth and final competition milestone of the 2021 AutoDrive Challenge held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 5-14.
More information about the Texas A&M 12th Unmanned team and the 2021 AutoDrive Challenge competition can be found at here and here respectively.
