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The unmanned car runs in Indianapolis

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“The only thing smart about Mansell’s Williams is the suspension”: it was 1986 and so Nelson Piquet mocked his teammate by bringing up a technical prodigy never seen before in F1: a system of shock absorbers managed by a computer that adapted the set-up of the car according to the points of the track. We all know how it turned out, the Williams FW11 won the constructors’ championship hands down and the innovation of the English team made history. A history that – since then – has not been it is more stopped, coming up to the present day with a sophistication never seen before: the unmanned racing car.


An impossible challenge that after many tests was even realized in a championship, the Indy Autonomous Challenge which sees – with pride – the participation of e-Novia and the Politecnico di Milano with the PoliMove team (among other things it ranked first in the Simulation Race of the Indy Autonomous Challenge which took place last June 30 in Indianapolis).
The team, led by Professor Sergio Savaresi of the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, thus won a prize of one hundred thousand dollars but, above all, lined up the stables of over 40 universities from eleven countries in the initial tender organized by Energy Systems Network and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

A record that is not the only one for Italy since all the cars come from Parma: they are the Dallara AV-21 with autonomous driving and, just looking at them, they are scary because the cockpit is completely plugged. In other words, where the driver normally sits, in the single-seater, there is a black lid. Below lies the thinking heart of the car that makes it possible to run a group of cars, fighting each other, without human command.


The one that took place in June, and the previous simulations, represent a first, very important step for the competing teams who, in this way, have the possibility to develop the artificial intelligence software necessary to compete in the final race on the Indy track. Autonomous Challenge, scheduled for October 23 this year at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway circuit.
We’ll see if the show lives up to expectations. What is certain is that the Indy Autonomous Challenge is a formidable competition, created to excel the engineering skills of the best university students from around the world.
A competition that will greatly advance those technologies capable of accelerating the creation of fully autonomous vehicles, as well as the implementation of advanced driver assistance systems, the so-called ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

In fact, it must be said that the PoliMove Team is specialized in the creation of technologies for vehicle automation (with an experience that ranges from e-bikes to off-road vehicles) and in the various control systems: intelligent or virtual actuators and sensors, control systems braking, traction, stability, electronic suspension and much more. And that in the last five years, the research group has developed more than one hundred and fifty projects in collaboration with companies of the caliber of Ferrari, Lamborghini and Maserati, and has given rise to the foundation of ten spin-off companies, mainly in the automotive sector. Among these: e-Shock, Blubrake, YAPE and HiRide, which today are part of the e-Novia Group.

The latter was in fact born in 2012 on the initiative of some researchers of the Politecnico di Milano. They call themselves a “Factory of Companies”: that is, we transform ideas into companies. In fact, through targeted partnerships with universities and polytechnics, they finance research capable of giving rise to projects that will become real companies. It is a model that is little used in Italy and allows the founding of innovative companies whose managers are former doctoral students of the faculties that carried out the research.

In short, an industrial design that develops along three axes: Smart Factory, Smart Transportation and Mobility as a Service.
“Our expertise in the field of autonomous driving – explains Vincenzo Russi, CEO and co-founder of e-Novia – allows us to develop a wide range of vehicles. In a reality like e-Novia, which is characterized by a way of making innovation defined as “non-linear”, autonomous vehicles are able to interact with the surrounding environment at very different speeds and in very different situations. Like Yape, our ground drone that moves in closed and open spaces, revolutionizing the world of last mile deliveries; like Winnica, our autonomous robot that moves between the rows of vineyards “.

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