SKKU held the “2019 National Autonomous Car Designing Competition” from August 20th to 23rd. The event was sponsored by Ministry of Education and Korea Sanhak Foundation. 120 students in 40 different teams from 14 universities joined the competition.
The competition was prepared to create an opportunity to develop future talents in the field of autonomous cars. Students practiced car modeling and coding for 4 days and worked together to design and build autonomous cars.
On the first day of the event, students were educated on skills relevant to autonomous cars such as Arduino, 3D printing and 3D modeling so that all teams begin on the same start line.
On the second day, Prof. Sungho HWANG gave a special lecture on the “key technology of autonomous cars” and SKKU’s team “SAVE”, which won the minister’s award in the previous competition, held a talk concert for students.
Teams gathered at the ‘learning factory’ on the third day to develop their autonomous cars and test the final products.
The main competition was held on the last day. The competition began with the normal racing course and each team presented the concept and ideas of their autonomous cars. They were also evaluated on the quality of the software they used for the autonomous cars. In the afternoon, each team raced in the intensive course tracks and SKKU’s team took first place.
Prof. Sungho HWANG said, “I hope students learned to cooperate and experience designing using convergent skills. This competition was a good opportunity for students to experience designing mainly through software skills. I expect the students to become creative talents in the era of fourth industrial revolution."
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