Tianjin University Intelligent Driving Team pocketed one gold, two silvers and one bronze medal in the 2021 China (Shenyang) Intelligent Connected Vehicles Challenge (CIVC) held on October 10, 2021. In the simulation algorithm challenge, the “autonomous driving” project took the championship and snatched the gold award, the “automatic parking” project secured the silver and the “driving assistance”project (perception group) gained the bronze . This team also won the silver award in the real car foresighted application challenge.

The China (Shenyang) Intelligent Connected Vehicles Challenge includes a simulation algorithm challenge and a real car foresighted application challenge. Over 100 teams participated in the event, with 70 teams coming from universities including Tsinghua University, Tianjin University, Southeast University, Northeastern University, Dalian University of Technology, and 30 teams from companies like Maomo Zhixing Technology Corporate and etc.

The simulation algorithm challenge contains four projects-- driving assistance (decision group), driving assistance (sensing group), automatic parking, and automatic driving. From September 15 to October 10, the challenge lasted over 20 days and went through stages of practice matches, preliminaries, and finals. TJU team competed in all projects and took the lead in matches about the perception, decision-making and control technologies for unmanned driving.

The foresighted application challenge attracted a number of backbone companies dedicated to driverless technology and college teams in China to participate. The Intelligent Driving Team of Tianjin University presented an intelligent networked driverless bus during the challenge. It adopted unique intelligent perception, decision-making and control technologies, set up a corresponding application algorithm for each of the 14 competitions, and earned extra bonus for its outstanding performance in such scenarios as “congested roads”, “giving pedestrians priority when turning right”, and “car-hailing pick-up”.

Tianjin University Intelligent Driving Team comes from the Advanced Power and Vehicle Intelligent Control Research Group of Tianjin University led by Professor Xie Hui. The team boasts excellent teachers and a complete unmanned driving research platform. Its research directions mainly include power intelligence, vehicle intelligence and big data intelligence, with four R&D groups--advanced algorithm group, model group, platform group and monitoring platform group-- established.

By Li Min

Editor: Eva Yin