Students of Department of Electronic Engineering stood out by participating in the artificial intelligence self-driving 1/5 racer category

A part of “robot-based innovation leading expert training project” … Advancement of robotics expertise through the contest

[June 29, 2023]

<Students of YU Department of Electronic Engineering won the grand prize in the 2nd International University Student Self-Driving EV Contest>

Students of Department of Electronic Engineering won grand prize in the 2nd International University Student Self-Driving EV Contest. The International University Student Self-Driving EV Contest was held in Jeju International Convention Center in May in connection with the International Electric Vehicle Expo to discover talents in future technologies such as electrification and self-driving and to contribute to the development of the self-driving industry.

In the contest, ICAS team (advisor Professor KWON Nam-kyu), consisting of students PARK Min-jae, KIM Hyun-ji, SOHN Se-young, and HONG Jin-seok from YU Department of Electronic Engineering, participated in “AI Autonomous 1/5 Racer” category and won grand prize.

“AI Autonomous 1/5 Racer” category is the one that the size of the model car is made one-fifth of the size of the actual car, missions such as lane recognition, tunnel driving, and emergency stop using sensors such as camera, GPS, and LiDAR on a 300m track are performed, and the model car arrives the destination as quickly as possible.

<Students of YU Department of Electronic Engineering are repairing a model self-driving car to participate in the International University Student EV Self-Driving Contest>

Team leader PARK Min-jae of YU ICAS said, “We were able to develop the ability to apply theoretical contents to practice while actually applying computer vision, image processing, and automatic control, etc. learned in major courses. In the process of preparing for the competition, the self-driving course was subdivided and roles were divided and it seems that the team members did their best in their respective duties, leading to good results. Above all, it seemed to be able to achieve good results because our advisor consulted with us whenever we encountered difficulties and helped us a lot so that we could focus on the competition.

Professor KWON Nam-kyu of YU Department of Electronic Engineering, who taught ICAS, said, “I am very happy that the students achieved the good results as they prepared passionately to participate in the competition. driving has recently increased, the importance of related capabilities is also increasing.We will continue to make endeavors to help students, who will participate in the robot-based innovation-leading professional training project, grow to be the talents demanded by the times through various opportunities in the future.”

The ICAS team participated in this competition with the support of the “Robot-based Innovation Leading Expert Training Project” promoted by YU and won grand prize. This project has been promoted by Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) since 2019 to cultivate master's and doctoral level professional talent in the field of robot industry and Professor LEE Jae-won of YU Department of Robot Engineering is in charge of the project.