Automatic driving car system which can be realized with high school student designed 400,000 yen unit won first prize

The annual science research contest for the world's largest high school student,Intel International Science and Engineering Fair(Hereinafter referred to as "Intel ISEF"), Romanian Ionut · Alexandre · Budistean (19 years old) received the best award, Gordon E. Moore Award. In addition, a prize money of 75,000 dollars (about 7,700,000 yen) will be given.

Romanian Teenager Wins Big for Low-Cost, Self-Driving Car Innovation
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Within the Intell ISEF in FY 2013, Ionutt's announced is a low-cost automatic driving car system using artificial intelligence. The reason why he worked on the field of automatic driving car is "More than 2 million people die from traffic accidents every year, 50 million people are injured in traffic accidents, and 87% of traffic accidents are human error It is caused by "In an interview with NBC NESWAs Ionut is saying, traffic accidents are considered to be one of the big problems occurring on the earth.

ByErik Starck

In Ionut's research, it is possible to detect things that come out suddenly in lanes, curves, other vehicles, roads by installing low resolution 3D radar and webcam in the car. Then, the computer processes the image and notifies the management program of the car, so that it becomes possible to acquire the position information of the car, and automatic operation becomes possible.

The automatic driving car system designed by Ionut was able to be created at just 4000 dollars (about 410,000 yen). Google, which also produces an automatic driving car system, seems to cost about $ 17,000 per vehicle (about 7.3 million yen), about 18 times more expensive than Ionut's.

BySteven Woo

The most important point is that in the automatic driving car system designed by Ionut, you tested in different situations 47 times out of 50 times perfectly. According to Ionutt, a system designer, the system was not able to perceive a person on the road at a distance of 65 to 100 feet (about 19 to 30 meters) in three missed runs Failure is not to modify the system but can be solved by replacing the low resolution 3D radar used in the system with a better one.

ByBecky Stern

In addition, you can see the moment when Ionut was awarded the Best Award from the following movies.

Intel Awards Winner 2013 - Ionut Budisteanu - YouTube