FPGA Design Competition
Autonomous Vehicle Driving using FPGA
Dec.11, 2019, Tianjin(China)
in conjunction with FPT'19

FPGA Design Competition entitled "Autonomous Vehicle Driving using FPGA" has been held at Dec.11, 2019, Tianjin(China) in conjunction with 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology.

• Summary of the competition [YouTube]

Test Runs

All the teams can make their test runs before preliminary/final runs.

Runs and Scores

We had fourteen teams from three countries at the event. We have preliminary runs as a qualifying round and the top six teams will advance to the final runs.

Preliminary Runs

Out of the fourteen registered teams, two teams (11,14) gave up the runs because of machine troubles and twelve teams appeared in the preliminary runs.

Course for Preliminary Runs

Each run gets the following scores:

• Run : length of the run following the lane
• Traffic Signals : the behaviour for the traffic signals
• Obstacles : the behaviour for the obstacles
• Pedestorians : the behaviour for the pedestorians(dolls)

Final Runs

Cars of the final runs

Presentation about the design

Course for Final Runs

Awards

1st Place

Team No.12
Yuya Kudo, Atsushi Takada, Yuta Ishida, and Tomonori Izumi
Ritsumeikan University (Japan)
 

2nd Place

Team No.5
Akira Kojima and Yuya Osawa
Hiroshima City University (Japan)
 

3rd Place

Team No.6
Yasuhiro Nitta, Sou Tamura, Hidetoshi Yugen, and Hideki Takase
Kyoto University (Japan)
 

Team Members and Supporters

Special Thanks to:

FPT'19 Design Competition Chairs

Prof. Minoru Watanabe (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Prof. Lin Gan (Tsinghua University, China)

Competition Support Team (Shizuoka University, Japan)

Takumi Fujimori, Takumi Hatamochi, Shinya Fujisaki, Yusuke Takaki, Masaki Watanabe, Junya Ishido, Hirotoshi Ito, Yuichi Moriya, Toru Yoshinaga

Links

Other FPGA driving competitions

• FPT'20 Design Competition (Dec.2020)
• 9th AISO cup FPGA Design Competition (Oct.2020)
• FPT'19 Design Competition (Dec.2019)
• HEART2019 Design Competition (Jun.2019)
• FPT'18 Design Competition (Dec.2018)
• 8th AISO cup FPGA Design Competition (Sep.2018)

Videos of FPGA driving competitions

• 9th Aiso Cup FPGA Design Competition [YouTube] (Oct.2020)
• FPT2019 Design Competition [YouTube] (Dec.2019)
• Preparing for FPT19 Design Competition [YouTube] (Nov.2019)
• Final Runs at FPT2018 FPGA Design Competition [YouTube] (Dec.2018)
• Test Runs at FPT2018 FPGA Design Competition [YouTube] (Dec.2018)
• Preliminary Runs at FPT2018 FPGA Design Competition [YouTube] (Dec.2018)
• 8th Aiso Cup FPGA Design Competition [YouTube] (Sep.2018)
• Test Runs at 8th Aiso Cup [YouTube] (Sep.2018)

Design Examples and Kits

• A comercially available FPGA-controlled-car kit based on the FPT'19 winner's design ad-refkit by Wasa Labo
• Design of Ritsumeikan U (FPT'19@Tianjin version) [github]
• Design of Kyoto U (HEART'19@Nagasaki version) [github]
• Design of Kyoto U (FPT'18@Okinawa version) [github]

References

(1) Tianze Wu (U Chinese Academy of Sci.), Weiyi Liu (Shanghai JiaoTong U.), and Yongwei Jin (Xidian U.), "An End-to-End Solution to Autonomous Driving Based on Xilinx FPGA", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.427-430, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00084, Dec.2019.

(2) Euan Jones (Massey U.), Keegan Pepper (Massey U.), Aimei Li (Hebei U. Tech.), Shiyue Li (Hebei U. Tech.), Yuteng Zhang (Hebei U. Tech.), and Donald Bailey (Massey U.), "Autonomous Driving Developed with an FPGA Design", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.431-434, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00085, Dec.2019.

(3) Shimon Kudaka (Okinawa Prefectural Kaiho Senior High school), Ai Suzuki (U. the Ryukyus), Natsumi Yamada (U. the Ryukyus), Noriki Oshiro (U. the Ryukyus), Taichi Miyagi (U. the Ryukyus), and Yasunori Osana (U. the Ryukyus), "Self-Driving Car Application of a Stream-Oriented Accelerator Framework", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.435-436, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00086, Dec.2019.

(4) Musashi Aoto (Meisei U.), Moe Mitsugi (Meisei U.), Takumi Momose (Meisei U.), and Yasutaka Wada (Meisei U.), "Towards the Improvement of Training Efficiency and Image Recognition Accuracy for an FPGA Controlled Mini-Car by Offloading Neural Network Training", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.437-440, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00087, Dec.2019.

(5) Akira Kojima (Hiroshima City U.) and Yuya Osawa (Hiroshima City U.), "Design and Implementation of Autonomous Driving Robot Car Using SoC FPGA", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.441-444, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00088, Dec.2019.

(6) Yasuhiro Nitta (Kyoto U.), Sou Tamura (Kyoto U.), Hidetoshi Yugen (Kyoto U.), and Hideki Takase (Kyoto U.), "ZytleBot: FPGA Integrated Development Platform for ROS Based Autonomous Mobile Robot", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.445-448, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00089, Dec.2019.

(7) Hamish Simmonds (Massey U.), Nicholas Carlisle (Massey U.), Xue Li (Hebei U. Tech.), Fanglin Mu (Hebei U. Tech.), and Donald Bailey (Massey U.), "Autonomous Vehicle Development Using FPGA for Image Processing", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.449-452, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00090, Dec.2019.

(8) Tomonari Tanaka (Kochi U. Tech.), Itsuki Ikeno (Kochi U. Tech.), Riku Tsuruoka (Kochi U. Tech.), Takumi Kuchiba (Kochi U. Tech.), Wang Liao (Kochi U. Tech.), and Yukio Mitsuyama (Kochi U. Tech.), "Development of Autonomous Driving System Using Programmable SoCs", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.453-456, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00091, Dec.2019.

(9) Kento Hasegawa (Waseda U.), Kazunari Takasaki (Waseda U.), Makoto Nishizawa (Waseda U.), Ryota Ishikawa (Waseda U.), Kazushi Kawamura (Waseda U.), and Nozomu Togawa (Waseda U.), "Implementation of a ROS-Based Autonomous Vehicle on an FPGA Board", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.457-460, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00092, Dec.2019.

(10) Taito Manabe (Nagasaki U.), Hiroki Egawa (Nagasaki U.), Yuichi Kawamata (Nagasaki U.), Tomohiro Kida (Nagasaki U.), Ryouhei Tsugami (Nagasaki U.), Ryohei Kakizaki (Nagasaki U.), Taichi Katayama (Nagasaki U.), Koki Tomonaga (Nagasaki U.), Shota Fukui (Nagasaki U.), Naofumi Yoshinaga (Nagasaki U.), Yuta Imamura (Nagasaki U.), Taichi Saikai (Nagasaki U.), Koki Fujita (Nagasaki U.), Masatomo Matsuda (Nagasaki U.), Kotoko Miyata (Nagasaki U.), Tatsuma Mori (Nagasaki U.), and Yuichiro Shibata (Nagasaki U.), "Autonomous Vehicle Driving Using the Stream-Based Real-Time Hardware Line Detector", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.461-464, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00093, Dec.2019.

(11) Kenichi Harada (U. Tsukuba), Kenji Kanazawa (U. Tsukuba), and Moritoshi Yasunaga (U. Tsukuba), "FPGA-Based Object Detection for Autonomous Driving System", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.465-468, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00094, Dec.2019.

(12) Yuya Kudo (Ritsumeikan U.), Atsushi Takada (Ritsumeikan U.), Yuta Ishida (Ritsumeikan U.), and Tomonori Izumi (Ritsumeikan U.), "An SoC-FPGA-Based Micro UGV with Localization and Motion Planning", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.469-472, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00095, Dec.2019.

(13) Takeshi Ohkawa (Tokai U.), Shotaro Tayama (Tokai U.), Hayato Mori (Tokai U.), Dohyung Lee (Tokai U.), Hayato Amano (Tokai U.), Itsuki Hirakawa (Tokai U.), Mikiko Sato (Tokai U.), and Harumi Watanabe (Tokai U.), "Design and Development of Networked Multiple FPGA Components for Autonomous Tiny Robot Car", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.473-475, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00096, Dec.2019.

(14) Andrew Yeo (Massey U.), Damon Hill (Massey U.), Anzhen Huang (Hebei U. Tech.), Xueao Liu (Hebei U. Tech.), Guanchen Dong (Hebei U. Tech.), and Donald Bailey (Massey U.), "Image Processing and Vehicles - Using FPGA to Reduce Latency of Time Critical Tasks", Proc. 2019 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.476-479, DOI 10.1109/ICFPT47387.2019.00097, Dec.2019.

(15) Kyosuke Mori, Yuuki Saitoh, Naohito Nakasato, "Introduction of MNSTbot", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.400-402, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00083, Dec.2018.

(16) Musashi Aoto, Yasutaka Wada, Yousuke Numata, "Development of an FPGA Controlled Mini-Car Toward Autonomous Driving", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.403-405, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00084, Dec.2018.

(17) Yuya Kudo, Atsushi Takada, Soji Tsuda, Takumi Sakai, Tomonori Izumi, "A Platform on All-Programmable SoC for Micro Autonomous Robots", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.406-409, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00085, Dec.2018.

(18) Yohei Shimmyo, Maiko Arakawa, Shunsuke Mie, Hiroaki Saito, Yuichi Okuyama, Hiroki Yomogita1, "Implementation of an Autonomous Driving System for FPT2018 FPGA Design Competition Using the Zynqberry Processing Board", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.410-413, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00086, Dec.2018.

(19) Akira Kojima, Yohei Nose, "Development of an Autonomous Driving Robot Car Using FPGA", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.414-417, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00087, Dec.2018.

(20) Hiromichi Wakatsuki, Takao Kido, Kenta Arai, Yuhei Sugata, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takashi Yokota, Takeshi Ohkawa, "Development of a Robot Car by Single Line Search Method for White Line Detection with FPGA", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.418-421, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00088, Dec.2018.

(21) Hiroki Bingo, "Development of a Control Target Recognition for Autonomous Vehicle Using FPGA with Python", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.422-423, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00089, Dec.2018.

(22) Yasuhiro Nitta, Sou Tamura, Hideki Takase, "A Study on Introducing FPGA to ROS Based Autonomous Driving System", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.424-427, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00090, Dec.2018.

(23) Kaijie Wei, Koki Honda, Hideharu Amano, "FPGA Design for Autonomous Vehicle Driving Using Binarized Neural Networks", Proc. 2018 International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology, pp.428-431, DOI 10.1109/FPT.2018.00091, Dec.2018.