Indy Autonomous Challenge
This is a $1.5 million university prize competition to win the world's first head-to-head, high speed autonomous race at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Our team features the combined engineering talents of Purdue University, the United States Military Academy at West Point, as well as university alumni, industry partners, and business leaders and sponsors.
What is Autonomous Racing?
No driver, just software. Imagine driver-less autonomous vehicles battling wheel to wheel for track position and podium success. All to help improve the performance and safety for vehicles of tomorrow.
Autonomous racing is the ultimate engineering challenge. The driver is replaced with a variety of sensors that act as the eyes and ears of the vehicle, feeding the data to a planning and control algorithm that students develop and tune. Machine learning (artificial intelligence) is often used to create human like behaviors and interpret complex sensor data. It is a complex mechatronic challenge that offers students hands-on experience in sophisticated systems development.
Our Mission
Utilizing the engineering, leadership, and fundraising capabilities of Purdue University with the engineering assistance of West Point and our public and private partners, we will program a modified, autonomous Dallara IL-15 Indy Lights race car to outrace and outmaneuver competitors from around the world in a head-to-head, high speed, fully-autonomous race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October 2021.
