On September 6, the AI Racing Tech team, led by UC Berkeley in collaboration with UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University, competed in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the international autonomous racing authority, at the Racing Capital of the World – the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The September race was the first competition featuring the new AV-24s racing head-to-head. Competing teams spent the spring and summer reconfiguring their programming to match the new systems and testing out the AV-24s, up until the day after Labor Day, when 10 IAC teams loaded into the pit at the Brickyard’s storied Gasoline Alley.
AI Racing Tech’s leadership was all present: Faculty Director S. Shankar Sastry, Executive Director Allen Y. Yang, and Team Principal Gary Passon; on the student side, Simulation Team Lead C.K. Wolfe, Controls Team Lead Adith Sundram, and Machine Learning Team Lead Eric Berndt – all from UC Berkeley – along with Vehicle Dynamics Team Lead Nicholas Preston from UC San Diego.
Hear from all of them in the trackside video above.
See the complete IAC 2024 race day recording below.
OFFICIAL LIVESTREAM: Indy Autonomous Challenge 2024 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway