Welcome to the 2019 DriveML Huawei Autonomous Vehicles Challenge

• Eligibility

  To be eligible to enter the competition, all Participants must

  • at the date of submission of the competition entry, be an undergraduate, post-graduate or PHD research student registered at a UK university; and
  • have an email address ending with *ac.uk* through which the Organiser can communicate with the Participant in connection with the competition;
  • either be single entrant or part of a team of up to a maximum of three (3) members only; and
  • be solely responsible for creating the competition submission, though supervi-sion or advice from the Participants’ professors or post-doctoral researchers is permissible.

• How to enter

  The competition registration opens on 15^th October 2019. The Competition itself com-mences on November 1^st 2019 and ends at midnight on 15^th December 2019 (the 'Dead-line'). Any competition submission after the Deadline will be automatically disqualified.

  The following describes how entries to the competition can be made:

  • the individual Participant or, if a team is entering, a member of that team as its representative on behalf of the others, must register with the Organiser through this website;
  • the Organiser will then send via email to the *ac.uk* email address provided at registration an email which will include a guide to the third party evaluation system used to run the competition (the 'Evaluation System').
  • the Participant will be provided login details to the third party Evaluation Sys-tem in order to be able to gain access to the competition and submit a com-petition entry. Please note that your use of the Evaluation System is subject to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of the operator of that system;

• The Simulator & Evaluation System

  The organisers will provide a simulation engine binary for participants to train on. Partici-pants are to use their own method(s) to ensure that their car can successfully accomplish the task.

  • Participants shall submit their models for testing and evaluation to generate a leader board included in the evaluation system. During the single agent test, models are tested on environments where traffic conditions and order varies.

• Participants can use any programming language/framework they wish. However, any cheating by using commercial tools and these results is not permitted and any such en-tries will be disqualified. Top performing teams on the leader-board will be required to pro-vide their code to the Organiser, who will run the code to verify that it reproduces the same results as submitted by the Participants to the competition and to otherwise verify that the submission is valid.

• Participants are permitted to submit a maximum 20 entries a day only to the competition. To be clear if a team enters, this maximum of 20 entries applies to the team as a whole.

• Prizes

  We will award cash prizes to the three teams with top performance and the top three teams will have the opportunity to visit the Huawei Headquarters in China. Every partici-pant will also get a certificate of qualification to the competition during the Award Cere-mony.

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