HKUST Autonomous RC-Car Racing Competition
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
Grab your chance to enjoy the RC-Car racing excitement with your peers.
Both tech and non-tech players are welcome!
The HKUST Autonomous RC-Car Racing Competition is a platform for promoting and demonstrating the interest and application potential of radio-control vehicle and is specially designed for global technology enthusiasts. We are committed to cultivating young talents with different knowledge (technical and non-technical) and showcasing the possibilities of technological innovation to audiences around the globe.
The HKUST Autonomous RC-car Racing Lab@theBASE offers training to members of the university to prepare for the Competition and development that follows and all the possibilities start from here……
Eligibility:
- HKUST members – full-time and part-time students, faculty, staff and alumni
- Registration as individual or team (up to 4 persons). Individuals can also join and will be teamed up after admission.
- All member MUST attend the competition.
- Each team should allocate time for RC-car trainings (min. 10 hours on-track training of the car plus coding time) in January and February 2021.
- Each team should have one laptop to work with the RC-car.
- An Ubuntu 18.04 system should be installed to the laptop.
- The laptop is recommended to have an Nvidia Graphic GPU Card, otherwise, the model will be trained very slowly using CPU only. Participants who do not have a GPU equipped laptop can contact peide.cai@connect.ust.hk to access the GPU server.
Awards:
1st place: HKD10,000 (1 award)
2nd place: HKD5,000 (1 award)
3rd place: HKD2,500 (2 awards)
4th place: HKD1,500 (4 awards)
All teams can own their Autonomous RC-cars upon completion of the whole competition.
Application:
When: Applications are now open until 31 December 2020
How: Click here
Click here for details & application!