Members of TJU's intelligent driving team

Tianjin University's Intelligent Driving Team won the Gold Award of the Extreme Challenge during the 5th World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC) held at Happy Valley in Tianjin's Dongli district from May 21to 23.

During the challenge, all 27 competing teams from universities and enterprises were required to traverse a two-way road test of up to 12 kilometers. They had to finish 17 competitive scenarios like overtaking, roundabout passage, traffic light-free intersection passage, detours for construction, yielding to ambulances, passing through bus stops and accident areas.

The Intelligent Driving Team of Tianjin University (TJU) comes from the university's Interdisciplinary Research Center for Unmanned Vehicles. Led by Xie Hui, director of the center, the team put their competing intelligent driving minibus through its paces, and it performed impressively using Vehicle to X (Vehicle, Infrastructure, and cloud computing center, V2X) intelligent network technology and vehicle-to-road synergy technology.

The intelligent driving minibus of TJU

It is equipped with TJU's in-house developed intelligent-driving terminal and Huawei's MDC controller, and adopted self-learning and self-optimizing trajectory planning and tracking algorithms during the competition.

Since 2017, TJU's Interdisciplinary Research Center for Unmanned Vehicles has sent an intelligent passenger vehicle, an intelligent bus and an intelligent minibus to compete in WIDCs and has won 14 awards in cross-country racing, urban-street racing and the intelligent driving simulation challenge. 

Members of TJU's intelligent driving team