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F1/10th Autonomous Racing Car
SDU's F1/10th Autonomous Racing project gives students hands-on experience building and programming 1/10th-scale autonomous race cars — tackling the same core challenges as full-size autonomous vehicles: perception, path planning, and real-time control, all under race conditions.
About F1/10th
F1/10th (also known as F1TENTH) is an open-source, community-run platform for autonomous racing research and education. Teams build a 1:10-scale race car to a shared hardware specification — typically equipped with a LiDAR scanner, an onboard GPU-class computer, a variable electronic speed controller (VESC), and a steering servo — and write the software that drives it. The objective is simple to state and hard to execute: don't crash, and minimize lap time. F1/10th courses and competitions run at universities worldwide and are designed to bridge the gap between toy-level RC platforms and full research-grade autonomous vehicles.
SDU offers the “Autonomous F1-tenth Racing Student Project” as a student project course (5 and 10 ECTS), where students design, build, and race their own F1/10th vehicles.
Event recap — to be added
On [date], students from [course/team name] tested their F1/10th autonomous race cars at [location]. The session focused on [e.g., a first live run of the perception and control stack / a head-to-head qualifying round], with cars navigating [track/course description]. [Add outcome, standout moment, or what's next.]