Autonomous vehicles on the edge: A survey on autonomous vehicle racing

J Betz, H Zheng, A Liniger, U Rosolia… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The rising popularity of self-driving cars has led to the emergence of a new research field in
recent years: Autonomous racing. Researchers are develo** software and hardware for …

Learning-based model predictive control for autonomous racing

J Kabzan, L Hewing, A Liniger… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present a learning-based control approach for autonomous racing with an
application to the AMZ Driverless race car gotthard. One major issue in autonomous racing …

Tum autonomous motorsport: An autonomous racing software for the indy autonomous challenge

J Betz, T Betz, F Fent, M Geisslinger… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For decades, motorsport has been an incubator for innovations in the automotive sector and
brought forth systems, like, disk brakes or rearview mirrors. Autonomous racing series such …

A tube-MPC approach to autonomous multi-vehicle racing on high-speed ovals

A Wischnewski, T Herrmann, F Werner… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous vehicle racing has emerged as vibrant, innovative technology development,
demonstration platform in recent years. Universities, companies demonstrate their …

Autonomous overtaking in gran turismo sport using curriculum reinforcement learning

Y Song, HC Lin, E Kaufmann, P Dürr… - … on robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Professional race-car drivers can execute extreme overtaking maneuvers. However, existing
algorithms for autonomous overtaking either rely on simplified assumptions about the …

Indy autonomous challenge-autonomous race cars at the handling limits

A Wischnewski, M Geisslinger, J Betz, T Betz… - … 2021: chassis. tech plus, 2022 - Springer
Motorsport has always been an enabler for technological advancement, and the same
applies to the autonomous driving industry. The team TUM Autonomous Motorsports will …

Time-optimal trajectory planning for a race car considering variable tyre-road friction coefficients

F Christ, A Wischnewski, A Heilmeier… - Vehicle system …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This paper shows the planning of time-optimal trajectories, which allows an autonomous
race car to drive at the handling limits, taking into account locally changing road friction …

Multilayer graph-based trajectory planning for race vehicles in dynamic scenarios

T Stahl, A Wischnewski, J Betz… - 2019 IEEE intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory planning at high velocities and at the handling limits is a challenging task. In order
to cope with the requirements of a race scenario, we propose a far-sighted two step, multi …

Sequential convex programming methods for real-time optimal trajectory planning in autonomous vehicle racing

P Scheffe, TM Henneken, M Kloock… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optimization problems for trajectory planning in autonomous vehicle racing are
characterized by their nonlinearity and nonconvexity. Instead of solving these optimization …

ForzaETH Race Stack—Scaled Autonomous Head‐to‐Head Racing on Fully Commercial Off‐the‐Shelf Hardware

N Baumann, E Ghignone, J Kühne… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous racing in robotics combines high‐speed dynamics with the necessity for
reliability and real‐time decision‐making. While such racing pushes software and hardware …