F1Tenth Autonomous Training Platform, Courseware and Community Activities

This is a continuation of a successful Safety21 project on developing a training community for engineering and ethical skills for developing future autonomous vehicles. This project includes three components - (1) autonomous driving course development with a 1/10th-scale autonomous racecar where students learn advanced algorithms and software development for perception, planning and control of autonomous driving; (2) Community Activities spanning 80 universities which have one or more F1tenth platforms and participate in the international autonomous racing competitions. The research team will host a minimum of 5 competitions in the top robotics, transportation and cyber-physical systems conferences; (3) Development of an ethical framework for using machine learning in life-critical systems.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $100,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552344811

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Carnegie Mellon University

  Pittsburgh, PA  United States 

  Safety21 University Transportation Center

  Carnegie Mellon University
  Pittsburgh, PA  United States  15213
• Project Managers:

  Stearns, Amy

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Pennsylvania

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• Principal Investigators:

  Mangharam, Rahul

• Start Date: 20240701
• Expected Completion Date: 20250630
• Actual Completion Date: 20250731
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Competition; Ethics; Machine learning; Race cars; Training
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Education and Training; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01962759
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Safety21 University Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552344811
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 7 2025 2:10PM