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Autonomous. Driving. Solutions.

Who we are

Our team was founded in 2020 in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and currently consists of 19 undergraduate Engineering students and 2 Mentors, coming from universities across Greece.

What we do

VROOM is focused on developing autonomous driving solutions for scaled vehicles. Currently, we are participating -for the third time in a row- in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge organized by the Bosch Engineering Center in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Our ultimate aim is the promotion of research on autonomous driving in academia.

Where we are

Team VROOM is based in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

Autonomous Driving Solutions

Who we are

Our team was founded in 2020 and currently consists of 5 undergraduate Engineering students and 2 Mentors, coming from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

What we do

VROOM is focused on developing autonomous driving solutions for scaled vehicles. Currently, we are participating -for the second time in a row- in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge organized by the Bosch Engineering Center in Cluj Napoca, Romania. Our ultimate aim is the promotion of research on autonomous driving in academia.

Where we are

Team VROOM is based in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

About us

The VROOM team was founded during the Fall of 2020 in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. Currently we are focused on developing autonomous driving solutions for scaled vehicles. 

The team is also powered by R4A Group, a research team based in AUTH, working on efficient and intelligent solutions for robotics, devices and systems.
 

Our first achievement is our 3rd place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge (BFMC) 2021, organized by the Bosch Engineering Center in Cluj Napoca, Romania. This success was followed by the 2nd place in the 5th edition of BFMC in 2022 with an upgraded vehicle! This year, the team managed to reach the finals of BFMC 2023 and achieve the 8th place alongside the Marketing Award.

BFMC team

What you will work on

In order to make the vehicle operate autonomously, we need to develop the system algorithms in Python. For data processing we use, mainly, Python libraries, such as OpenCV, and neural networks. Also, for the simulated environment, we work on ROS (Robotic Operating System) and the Gazebo Simulator.

All the work developed in the team shall be documented. To achieve this, apart from the documentation in our code, we create technical reports in LaTeX.

Since all the processing on the vehicle will be performed with a single-board computer (Raspberry Pi, Jetson NX), all the algorithms as well as the computer itself shall be optimized for achieving the maximum efficiency.

Apart from the software of the system, we need as well to modify the hardware of the car (cameras, sensors, computer etc). This part also includes the design and printing of 3D components utilized to support any modifications on the vehicle.

Join our team!

Would you like to be part of our team, participating in autonomous driving competitions?

Our Lab

For the needs of the competition, our test track and the GPS server have been settled in a building of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Based on the Competition Track designed by the BFMC Organizing team, we designed our own track. Our final track was created in such a way that we were capable of testing every different task, as on the actual track! 

Our Lab

For the needs of the competition, our test track and the GPS server have been settled in a building of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Based on the Competition Track designed by the BFMC Organizing team, we designed our own track. Our final track was created in such a way that we were capable of testing every different task, as on the actual track! 

Our Car

Our Car

Bosch Future Mobility Challenge

Bosch Future Mobility Challenge is an international technical competition initiated by Bosch Engineering Center Cluj in 2017. The competition invites bachelor and master student teams every year to develop autonomous driving and connectivity algorithms on 1/10 scale vehicles to navigate in a designated environment simulating a miniature smart city. The students work on their projects in collaboration with Bosch experts and academic professors for several months to develop the best-performing algorithms.

On the 16th of September, our team visited Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the final round of the Challenge!

We were one of the 9 teams who participated in the Semi-finals and Finals!

After a lot of testing, we managed to get the 3rd place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2021!

On the 10th – 15th of May, our team visited Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the final round of the Challenge!

We were one of the 23 teams who participated in the Semi-finals and one of the 8 teams that reached the Finals!

After 3 days on the track and a lot of fun, we managed to get the 2nd place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2022 along with the Marketing Award!

On the 3rd – 7th of May, our team visited Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the final round of the Challenge!

We were one of the 26 teams who participated in the Semi-finals (out of the 75 starting teams) and after 3 days on the track and a lot of fun, we managed to get the 8th place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2023 along with the Marketing Award!

Bosch Future Mobility Challenge

Bosch Future Mobility Challenge is an international technical competition initiated by Bosch Engineering Center Cluj in 2017. The competition invites bachelor and master student teams every year to develop autonomous driving and connectivity algorithms on 1/10 scale vehicles to navigate in a designated environment simulating a miniature smart city. The students work on their projects in collaboration with Bosch experts and academic professors for several months to develop the best-performing algorithms.

On the 16th of September, our team visited Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the final round of the Challenge!

We were one of the 9 teams who participated in the Semi-finals and Finals!

After a lot of testing, we managed to get the 3rd place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2021!

On the 10th – 15th of May, our team visited Cluj-Napoca, Romania for the final round of the Challenge!

We were one of the 23 teams who participated in the Semi-finals and one of the 8 teams that reached the Finals!

After 3 days on the track and a lot of fun, we managed to get the 2nd place in the Bosch Future Mobility Challenge 2022 along with the Marketing Award!

Our team participates in the 6th edition of the competition along with other 73 teams from all over the world!

We have already submitted the first two project status about our progress and we are looking forward to the qualification round of the competition!

The members

BFMC Team

theo-papafotiou

Thodoris Papafotiou

team leader

Efthymia Amarantidou

team member

Ioannis Horgos

team member

Stavroula Livarda

team member

Christos Tsingiropoulos

team member

Junior Team

alexandros-nikolaou

Alexandros Nikolaou

team MEMBER

Ioannis Chalvatzis

team member

Eleftheria Panagiotidou

team member

nikolas-kolovos

Nikolas Kolovos

team MEMBER

Stergios Ntontos

team member

Eleni Tsermentseli

team member

Collaborators

giannis-gkountras

Giannis Gkountras

team Member

Despoina Georgiadi

team member

Spyros Chatzigeorgiou

team member

sofia-kapetanaki

Sofia Kapetanaki

team member

Panagiotis Vlahakis

team member

Sotiris Barlakas

team member

Foteini Kokkoni

team member

Panagiotis Protopsaltis

team member

Our mentors

Emmanouil Tsardoulias

MENTOR

Antonios Dimitriou

MENTOR

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We will be more than glad to talk to you!