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The Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) is a broadly collaborative effort between public and private organizations and academic institutions to challenge university students around the world to create a new generation of automated vehicle software to run autonomous racecars and inspire the next generation of STEM talent.
The IAC uses full-scale autonomous race cars, with the first event taking place on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in October 2021. The challenge itself started in November 2019, and wasmade up of several rounds and hackathons where the competing teams demonstrated their ability to race autonomously, using the same vehicle hardware. Based in Indiana, the IAC is creatng a hub for performance automation, leveraging the competitions to attract the best and the brightest minds from around the globe to further the state-of-the-art technology in automated vehicles. The IAC started with 41 university teams signing up to compete more than two years ago, representing top engineering and technology programs from 14 U.S. states and 11 countries.
Organizers of the IAC include Energy Systems Network (ESN), an Indianapolis-based non-profit and a branded initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) and CICP Foundation. We talk to Paul Mitchell, President and CEO of ESN about the IAC. Prior to joining ESN, Paul served in the Office of Governor Mitch Daniels as policy director for Economic Development, Workforce, & Energy.
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