We engineer
self-driving
race cars
SFU Racerbot is a student-run team that builds and programs 1/10 scale autonomous race cars for the RoboRacer competition.
About the team
We are an engineering design team based out of Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus, designing and building 1/10th scale autonomous race cars for the University of Pennsylvania’s RoboRacer autonomous car community. Our mission is to both build self-driving race cars, as well as design/program the algorithims used to power the car.
Our team is mostly a software design team, as the bulk of our work is designing and implementing self-driving algorithims alongside firmware to communicate with the various hardware components on the vehicle. We do have a tech team that builds the cars and experiments with new/different hardware components.
The club is split into the tech team as well as a software team for each car we have. Currently we only have two cars but plan on building more once we have the funds.
What we've built
"VROOMBA"
Our flagship racer. Powered by an NVIDIA Jetson, LIDAR, cameras, and an ESC motor controller, with a top speed of 97 km/h (60 mph). Runs ROS2 on Ubuntu, with the bulk of our code written in C++ using ROS2's API and CUDA for GPU compute.
Racerbot B
Our second Racerbot, built alongside Car A as one of the original racerbots. Shares the same sensor and compute stack and serves as our secondary testbed for new autonomy algorithms.
Milestones
Our sponsors
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