09 Oct 2024
In July 2024, the team called “XJTLU TEAM 1” from School of AI and Advanced Computing, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) won the second prize in the final competition of the 19th National University Student Smart Car Race. The team members were Jia Huang, Senwei Liang, Simin Lai and Jinhao Ren, and the supervisor was Dr Hongbin Liu.
The team participated in the iFlytek Smart Rescue Challenge, which is a national Class A competition. The challenge is to design an intelligent driverless car to complete tasks such as visual recognition, navigation, localization, and racing.
During the five-day competition, each participating group was required to simulate intelligent driverless car in urban counter-terrorism operations using visual patrolling and visual guidance technique, which was to demonstrate the ability to autonomously navigate and avoid risks in complex environments.
The smart car first needed to identify the number of terrorists, navigate to a designated location to obtain a first aid kit, then obtain a rescue weapon through visual recognition technology, and finally patrol to target location.
It was the first time for some team members to participate in such a national level event and they had difficulties in adapting to the situation during the competition, but through teamwork and encouragement, they finally overcame the challenges and successfully completed the task.
The students from “XJTLU TEAM 1” said that they realized how important of teamwork was through this competition, they also leant the basic operation of Linux system, accumulated experience in ROS development and became more proficient in C++ and Python. In addition, they also learnt in-depth about robot navigation and vision algorithms, such as Astar, Dijkstra, Teb, Yolo etc. The experience of the national competition not only enriched the individual ability and background, but also allowed them to appreciate the charm of technology development and experience the joy of technology implementation.
09 Oct 2024