The 17th F1TENTH Grand Prix (HongKong)

The team FSM Speed supervised by Professor Wang Jianping has triumphed at the 17th F1Tenth Autonomous Grand Prix during the 2024 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week.  The team members include CS PhD student Deng Jinghuai and Research Assistants Hu Hua, Dong Xiaoyun, Huang Bingyuan and Li Jiahao.

The competition, held from 14 May to 16 May, was renowned for its rigorous challenges, including intense practice session, time trial races, and head-to-head races on a brand-new demanding circuit.  The participants were required to build their race cars from scratch, implement their sophisticated algorithms, and constantly adjust parameters in response to ever-changing track conditions to reach the best performance. The entire competition demanded a robust understanding of vehicle engineering, ROS, localization and mapping, trajectory planning, and model predictive control.  After a heated competition against other top-tier teams, FSM Speed distinguished itself by enhancing the standard “follow the gap” algorithms, achieving superior speed and obstacle avoidance performance, ultimately securing their first-place finish in this highly competitive Grand Prix.