CPS Week 2022

GRAIC ‘22 Call for Participation

GRAIC was hosted at CPS-IOT Week 2022.

The video from our live event can be found on our YouTube channel. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/mANCmMeI6_0.

Results

Congratulations to our solo race winners SBU and our head-to-head race winners MERCI!

Our top 3 finishers for solo races were:

1. SBU
2. GoHeelsRacing
3. EMI

Our top 3 finishers for head-to-head races were:

1. MERCI
2. E.D.I.T.H/SBU
3. EMI

Solo race results table:

Head to head results table:

EOH 2022

In April 2022, we ran the first in person Engineering Open House at UIUC version of GRAIC! This event is aimed at junior-high and high-school students. The exhibit consisted of three main parts:

• Controller creation and submission - Students adjust various parameters of the baseline controller and submit to our testing pipeline. We then generate race logs and a video to show them how their controller behaved.
• Manual racing against baseline autonomous agent - Students could use our steering wheel setup to race against one of our autonomous agents. This gives them an idea of the differences between autonomous agent driving and human driving.
• GRAIC and autonomous vehicles presentation - Any questions students had about autonomous driving or GRAIC could be answered at our presentation.

Videos and race logs from the submitted controllers can be found on our leaderboard.

This event was very successful, and our exhibit won three awards! We were awarded first place for The Spirit of Innovation and Most Engaging awards, and we were awarded second place of Outstanding Tech. Here are some pictures from our very exciting event!

OCAR-ICRA 2021

GRAIC was presented at OCAR-ICRA workshop. The workshop paper can be found here. The video presentation for GRAIC can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_zsJtb6kaY, and our presentation starts at 1:02:30. Our presentation can also be found below.

CPS Week 2021

GRAIC was hosted at CPS-IOT Week 2021. Congratulations to our winners Abolfazl Karimi and Parasara Sridar Duggirala (UNC)!

We will be hosting a live event at CPS-IOT Week! At this event, we will present on the GRAIC framework and host a Q&A. We will then discuss the competition and present the results. Finally, we will have a community discussion and talk about future plans for GRAIC. A program can be found below.

The video from our live event can be found on our YouTube channel. The video can be found here: https://youtu.be/mANCmMeI6_0.

Program

Our presentation will be held Tuesday, May 18. All times are central time.

• 9-9:45: The generalized racing framework: GRAIC team
• 9:45-10: Q&A, discussion
• 10-10:30: GRAIC 2021 experience, stats, and results
• 10:30-11: Community discussion and planning

Results

Congratulations to our winners Abolfazl Karimi and Parasara Sridar Duggirala (UNC)!

Results table:

The scoring function is roughly: score = time to finish + collision penalty + out of bounds penalty. Therefore, the lower the score, the better the controller performance. A score of DNF means that the controller did not finish.

EOH 2021

In March 2021, we ran the Mini-GRAIC Race for Engineering Open House at UIUC! The Mini-GRAIC race is aimed at junior-high and high-school students to introduce them to the world of autonomy. In the Mini-GRAIC race, students told us what car and controller they wanted use. We ran the vehicle on our simulator and output a score. The videos of the cars running are posted to our YouTube channel and the leaderboard is posted here.

Our EOH video can be found below.

Results