Paper ID: 2406.08745

UruBots Autonomous Cars Team One Description Paper for FIRA 2024

Pablo Moraes, Christopher Peters, Any Da Rosa, Vinicio Melgar, Franco Nuñez, Maximo Retamar, William Moraes, Victoria Saravia, Hiago Sodre, Sebastian Barcelona, Anthony Scirgalea, Juan Deniz, Bruna Guterres, André Kelbouscas, Ricardo Grando

This document presents the design of an autonomous car developed by the UruBots team for the 2024 FIRA Autonomous Cars Race Challenge. The project involves creating an RC-car sized electric vehicle capable of navigating race tracks with in an autonomous manner. It integrates mechanical and electronic systems alongside artificial intelligence based algorithms for the navigation and real-time decision-making. The core of our project include the utilization of an AI-based algorithm to learn information from a camera and act in the robot to perform the navigation. We show that by creating a dataset with more than five thousand samples and a five-layered CNN we managed to achieve promissing performance we our proposed hardware setup. Overall, this paper aims to demonstrate the autonomous capabilities of our car, highlighting its readiness for the 2024 FIRA challenge, helping to contribute to the field of autonomous vehicle research.

Submitted: Jun 13, 2024