第五届F1/10年度自主赛车比赛今年在哥伦比亚大学主办！-新东方前途出国

　　The 5th Annual F1/10th Autonomous Racing Competition was hosted this year at Columbia University and was sponsored by the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering departments. Thirteen teams from around the world traveled to New York to compete against each other in a battle which pitted contestants' algorithm design and engineering skills against each other. The teams varied in composition from purely undergraduate teams to one team consisting of non-academic professionals. 

　　第五届F1/10年度自主赛车比赛今年在哥伦比亚大学主办，由机电工程系承办。来自世界各地的13支队伍前往纽约，在一场竞争中，参赛者的算法设计和工程技术相互竞争。这些小组的组成各不相同，从纯粹的本科生小组到由非学术专业人员组成的小组。

　　F1/10th provides a common hardware platform on which teams can rapidly develop and prototype the "brains" of an autonomous vehicle. The engineering challenges involve computer vision, optimal path planning and trajectory design, sensor fusion, and data acquisition, to name just a few. In short, a multi-disciplinary approach to engineering is needed. 

　　F1/10提供了一个通用的硬件平台，团队可以在这个平台上快速开发和原型化自主汽车的“大脑”。工程挑战包括计算机视觉、最优路径规划和轨迹设计、传感器融合和数据采集等。简而言之，需要一种多学科的工程方法。

　　Typically, the cost of entry to working on such an application (on a real-world scale) would prevent many research groups from tackling these important problems. The F1/10th platform (developed by Prof Rahul Mangharam and his team at UPenn) allows engineers to implement on the model cars with similar algorithms that would be used on real self-driving cars, but at a fraction of the cost and time. 

　　通常，开发这样一个应用程序（在现实世界中）的入门成本会阻止许多研究小组解决这些重要问题。F1/10平台（由Rahul Mangharam教授和他在UPenn的团队开发）允许工程师在模型车上实现类似算法，这些算法将用于真正的自动驾驶汽车，但成本和时间都很小。

　　The race took place in Carleton Commons on October 14th, with teams arriving the day before to test the track and calibrate their cars. Despite the jetlag, and powered by coffee and pizza, several teams stayed into the early hours of the morning. Race day consisted of three races. The first two races restricted the hardware requirements for all teams. Race one, won by the team from South Korea was a single-car-at-a-time fastest lap competition. Race two was a more technically demanding head-to-head race, won by the team from Poland, and the final race was the "open race", where the hardware restrictions were lifted, and the winners were Team Dzik from the Polish Academy of Sciences. 

　　比赛于10月14日在卡尔顿公地举行，各车队前天抵达，对赛道进行测试并校准赛车。尽管有时差，咖啡和比萨饼为动力，几个小组一直呆到凌晨。比赛日由三场比赛组成。前两场比赛限制了所有车队的硬件要求。韩国队赢得的第一场比赛是单车一次最快圈速比赛。第二场比赛是一场技术要求更高的正面比赛，由波兰队赢得，最后一场比赛是“公开赛”，取消了硬件限制，获胜者是波兰科学院的Dzik队。

　　Next year, Columbia plans to enter its first ever team into the race, led by incoming EE Professor James Anderson, which takes place at the 21st IFAC World Congress in Berlin. 

　　明年，哥伦比亚大学计划在柏林举行的第21届IFAC世界大会上，由即将上任的EE教授James Anderson率领的第一支参赛队伍参赛。

　　Students (undegrad and grad students) that are interested in learning more about the Columbia team can contact Prof. Anderson here. 

　　有兴趣进一步了解哥伦比亚队的学生（未毕业和研究生）可以在这里联系 James Anderson 教授。

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