On January 21, 2016, the Unmanned New Formula Car Conference of BIT was held at the Mechanical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center. The world’s first unmanned college formula car designed by the unmanned racing team was unveiled.
Together with Xiang Changle, Deputy Party Secretary and Vice President of BIT, Zhan Wenzhang, Head of New Energy Vehicle Management Department of BAIC Group, Liu Yong, General Manager Assistant of Inner Mongolia First Machinery Group Co., LTD., Yan Jianlai, Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of Formula Student China (FSC), Chen Gang, Director of FSC, Wang Yong, Deputy Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of FSC, school leaderships, teachers from School of Mechanical Engineering, and teacher and student representatives of Beijing Geely University and Yanshan University also joined in this event. At the same time, reporters from more than ten media such as CCTV, People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, China Youth Daily, China Science Journal, China News Service, People’s Political Consultative Conference, China Automobile Daily, Beijing Daily, and Sohu Automobile also came to the scene to have a spot coverage.
First, Prof. Hu Jibin, the Executive Vice-President of School of Mechanical Engineering, delivered a speech. Under the background of vigorously promoting the comprehensive reform work in the school, the college has made a bold attempt to explore the mode of combining scientific research with the innovation work of the students under the new period and new demand, and the establishment of the unmanned racing team is an exploration of the innovation mechanism of the school. He said that the development of the world’s first unmanned college formula car fully represents the level of our university and even the Chinese college students. It has a high degree of display and academic influence. The college will also take unmanned racing team as a pilot to explore the operation mode of the scientific and technological innovation team for graduate students, and graduate students from different colleges and universities are welcome to make full use of the unmanned racing platform to carry out academic research.
Dr. Ni Jun, the leader of the team, introduced the basic situation of the car, the team’s basic situation and future prospects on behalf of the unmanned racing team. Through videos, he showed the first sight remote control technology, environmental awareness technology, positioning and navigation technology and independent driving technology of the unmanned racing car through video. In the team introduction, he introduced that the unmanned racing team took the unmanned race car as the core, and rallied the full-scale layout subsystem technology to other technological innovation projects such as the Challenge Cup, Daiso, and played the traction role of the unmanned racing team in the future. The work will focus on more frontier unmanned vehicle technology.
Yan Jian, representing the Organizing Committee of FSC, fully affirmed the results of the unmanned car team of our university. He said that BIT has always been the pacemaker of FSC, including winning the first competition in 2010, making China’s first electric formula racing car, and oil tanker and tram. Today, congratulations should be given to BIT for completing the manufacturing of the first unmanned college formula car. He then expressed eager hopes for the students of BIT to continue to maintain their spirit of innovation.
Zhan Wenzhang said in his speech that in recent years, the cooperation between BAIC Group and BIT has become more and more closely in the joint declaration of collaborative innovation centers, the transmission of graduates and the training of master of engineering, etc. Besides, BAIC Group also has long been concerned about personnel training and student science and technology innovation of BIT. Since its title sponsorship in 2012, it has achieved good social benefits. In the future, in the area of unmanned vehicles, BAIC Group also hopes to continue to fully cooperate with BIT to jointly promote the continuous innovation of personnel training model, and strive to transform itself from a large automobile country to a self-owned brand automobile power.
Xiang Changle represented our university to congratulate the students on the advent of unmanned driving racing, which fully demonstrated the elegant demeanor of our university and even Chinese college students, and has won honors for BIT. He pointed out that our students should keep the spirit of exploration and innovation, not only to solve the first problem, but also to solve the long-standing problem of maintaining technological leadership. Moreover, he advised that the students would like to make good use of the research results of the school in the field of unmanned cars, so that the advantages of scientific research should be better serve the scientific and technological innovation activities of college students, and the level of scientific and technological innovation works would be further improved.
The representatives of the guests attended the ceremony to unveil the new racing car. Under the common witness of schools, enterprises and media, the world’s first unmanned college formula car developed by the unmanned racing team of BIT officially embarked on a new journey.
