August 27, 2022 (Kickoff)

Kickoff meeting 2022

Timeline

• Monday, Aug. 29: Recruitment begins

• Monday, Sept. 5: Challenge training materials released

• Friday, Sept. 9: Application closes, samples due

• Sept. 12-15: Interviews held

• Now - Friday, Sept. 16:

  • Clean up and release our product from last year. This will be Navigator 1.2. Everything after will become Navigator 2.0.
  • Conduct literature review for everything in our system: Object tracking, motion planning, control, and so on.
    • We will compile a full list of all notable papers.

• Monday, Sept. 19: New membership announced, challenge opens

• w/o September 19: Papers compared, approaches selected

• Nov. 7: Challenge closes

• Nov. 10: Challenge results released

• All of Fall semester: Vehicle interface group will conduct a vehicle overhaul, include stress testing, sensor calibration, and the development of maintenance and safety checklists.

• All of Spring semester: Demo 2 and beyond! By now, both our hardware and software have received major overhauls, and now we reap the rewards.

  • We're in a space race with autonomous cars in DFW and on campus.

Technical notes

• Here is the CARLA challenge](https://leaderboard.carla.org/challenge/)

• We will have to stick with OpenDRIVE maps for now...

Tasks

• Everyone: Please fill out this WhenIsGood](https://whenisgood.net/9pagqge)

• Print and post recruitment fliers

• Add recruitment slides to our Hub

• Help review sample submissions (not just for core developer applicants, but for all positions)

  • We will score code submissions using a rubric. This scale is outlined on our Join page.