From May 19-21, 2023, the World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC) 2023, sponsored by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the State Internet Information Office, the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the China Association for Science and Technology and the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, was successfully held at Dongli Lake in Tianjin. About 150 teams from all over the country participated in the event, which featured cutting-edge technical exchanges and intelligent technology competitions in the field of intelligent driving.
The Intelligent Unmanned System Research Center of the College of Information Science and Technology participated in this competition, with Professor Wang Kunfeng as team leader and Lecturer Li Zhiwei as fleet leader. BUCT’s "Haikr Intelligent Driving Team" participated in the competition’s intelligent networked real-car race. The competition focused on functions such as intelligent vehicle perception data sharing, pedestrian intention recognition, signal light recognition, special road conditions such as congestion and construction, unmanned delivery, and borrowed overtaking, and set up 14 complex scenes of daily life on a 5.2-kilometer track, comprehensively testing the ability of intelligent networked vehicles in sensor sensing and identification, core data algorithms, and driving strategies. After fierce competition, BUCT’s "Haikr Intelligent Driving Team" won the silver award in the intelligent networked real-car race, achieving a historic breakthrough for BUCT in high-level autonomous driving competitions at home and abroad.
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Key R&D Program, and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, this intelligent networked vehicle-road-cloud collaborative autonomous driving system has been developed by the team over many years of technical research. The system integrates key technologies such as multi-sensor online joint calibration, multimodal fusion perception, and fusion positioning. It has been running stably on various types of intelligent mobile platforms developed by the team. In this competition, the Haikr-HK01 intelligent networked vehicle was equipped with multimodal sensors including a 4D imaging millimeter-wave radar, 128-line LiDAR, industrial cameras and combined inertial guidance, and successfully completed the competition tasks.
At present, intelligent networked vehicles have become a global industrial innovation hotspot and the high ground of intelligent technology development. The Intelligent Unmanned System Research Center of the College of InformationScience and Technology will continue to deepen research on autonomous driving technology, adhere to innovative development, strive to build a professional and authoritative benchmark autonomous driving team, help BUCT to step onto the international stage of intelligent technology, and cultivate high-quality scientific and technological talents for the country.