Driverless Racing Car

Around 120 students from the University of Munich from a wide range of different degree courses such as vehicle technology, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, computer engineering, design and business administration worked together under the name of municHMotorsport. The Formula Student Racing Team was founded in order to put the theory from lectures into practice. FAULHABER provided the municH Motorsport team with two motors including the appropriate accessories for a driverless vehicle that took part in the “Formula Student Driverless” competition.

“The main focus of our team during the competition was on showing that we can build a driverless racing car”, says team member Maximilian Steiner. The team succeeded in doing this, even though they were somewhat unlucky during the competition: They “only” managed 9th place in the event because of a cable break in one of the sensor systems. However, municHMotorsport team wants to compete with a driverless vehicle again in the coming season.

25 students from different technical degree courses at the University of Stuttgart combined to form GreenTeam Uni Stuttgart. The team has been building racing cars for more than 50 years. Now they were faced with the task of converting their Formula Student racing car for highly-automated, i.e. driverless, driving round a circuit for the first time.