Team IMU AV, consisting of the students of IMU Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, supervised by faculty member Asst.Prof.Dr. Haluk BAYRAM, received significant awards for their vehicle design in TEKNOFEST 2022, which was held on different dates with many categories. The vehicle was selected as the first in the Original Vehicle category in the “Robotaxy-Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition”. In addition to being the first, the team was also deemed worthy of the “Most Original Software” award, the most prestigious award in the competition, with the electric vehicle software they developed. Another leg of the competition was held at Samsun Airport between 30 August and 4 September. Here, the team was deemed worthy of the Special Jury “Best Presentation” award with their presentation. The team also took first place in the Critical Design Report.
Organized to contribute to the creation of industrial innovative products, the “Robotaxy Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition” was held in Kocaeli/Gebze Bilişim Valley between 25-29 July 2022. The mechanical and electronic revisions necessary for the electric vehicle developed before this date to have autonomous driving capability were made in the Field Robotics Laboratory within our university. The competition track and autonomous vehicle were transferred to the simulation environment on a one-to-one scale, the necessary software was developed in this environment and transferred to the vehicle in real environment. The autonomous vehicle has the features of AI-supported traffic sign detection, lane detection and tracking, active obstacle avoidance and instant high-accuracy location estimation.
The autonomous vehicle design of Team IMU AV aimed at product innovation.
Our team, which completed the pre-competition tests, became one of the 32 teams that qualified for the final stage out of a total of 146 teams and successfully completed the competition. Team IMU AV team attended the award ceremony and exhibited their autonomous vehicle at TEKNOFEST 2022, which was held at Samsun Çarşamba Airport between 30 August and 4 September.