Driving SMARTS Competition 2.0

The Competition

Autonomous driving (AD) is the next frontier of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Intending to further research in AD, we invite you to participate in an autonomous driving competition.

Codalab Site

Driving SMARTS Competition

Tasks and evaluation

This competition seeks to advance autonomous driving by developing agents that can drive as quickly and safely as possible from the start to destination amid background traffic. Data for the competition consists of large-scale naturalistic driving data replayed within SMARTS simulation environment. The following typical driving scenarios are tested: cruising, overtaking, merging, left turns at unsignalized intersections and being cut off by another vehicle. These scenarios are mined from the naturalistic data, manipulated and replayed in SMARTS. For some scenarios, interactive background vehicles are added in SMARTS.

Agents will be ranked according to metrics on safety and comfort (smoothness and safe driving), task completion (% of completed scenarios), traffic rule violation, and completion time.

Competition tracks

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Competition timeline

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Prizes

Top participants in each track will receive the following prizes: TODO

Additional prizes: TODO

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General Rules

Participants can be a single entrant or part of a team;
Participants must be registered for the competition prior to submitting an entry;
Participants must be solely responsible for creating the submission (receiving supervision or advice from supervisors or colleagues is permitted);
Participants must be able to share their training and inference code and trained models with the organizers;
For the participants or a team to be eligible for receiving awards, each member must satisfy the following conditions:
- be at least 18 years old or age of majority in place of residence;
- not be an organizer of this competition or a family member of a competition organizer;
Any submissions entered after the competition closes will be automatically disqualified.
Teams found using multiple accounts will have all submissions aside from their earliest account disqualified;

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How to enter

The individual participant or, if a team is entering, a team representative, must register with the Organiser through the “Driving SMARTS Competition” site.
The participants will be provided login details to CodaLab to submit a competition entry.
Starter kit and necessary documentation is available here.
Participants may submit up to 3 entries to the competition.

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