ICRA 2018 best student paper
Students from the Autonomous Systems Laboratory led by Roland Siegwart, Professor at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, won the Best Student Paper Award at the ICRA 2018 in Brisbane.
Miguel Valls, Hubertus Hendrikx, Victor Reijgwart, Fabio Meier, Inkyu Sa, Renaud Dube, Abel Gawel and Mathias Burki (with Roland Siegwart) received the external page Best Student Paper Award for their paper on external page "Design of an Autonomous Racecar: Perception, State Estimation and System Integration". The paper was also among the finalist for the best conference paper.
In their paper they describe the design and implementation of an autonomous racecar that uses onboard sensors to drive along on unknown race track at competitive speed (external page demonstration video) The study was supported by three EU projects (TRADR, Flourish and Up-Drive) as well as the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI).