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Provisional dates for Formula Student 2025 at Silverstone are 16-20 July 2025 inclusive.

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Summary

Formula Student AI (FSAI) is a sub-competition of Formula Student UK (FSUK) held at Silverstone and hosted by IMechE. Teams are required to develop an autonomous driving system for a small race car which will be tested along various tracks at the competition (through dynamic events). Additionally, teams must demonstrate subject-matter knowledge and their understanding of the autonomous system (through static events). Bristol FSAI will compete in the ADV-DDT class, so the vehicle which the group will program is supplied by IMechE (the ADS-DV, pictured below) and does not have to be built from scratch.

The Autonomous Driving System - Dedicated Vehicle (ADS-DV)

The Autonomous Driving System - Dedicated Vehicle (ADS-DV)

Events

Dynamic Events

These are the events where teams demonstrate their system’s abilities through autonomous driving tasks. This includes 4 events:

  1. Acceleration — Straight line acceleration test.
  2. Skidpad — Lateral acceleration test.
  3. Sprint — Single lap of a track (no learning).
  4. Track Drive — 10 laps of a track after 1 lap of learning.

More info:

Dynamic Events Info

Static Events

These are the events where teams demonstrate their subject-matter knowledge and their understanding of the autonomous system. This includes 4 events:

  1. Business Plan Presentation (BPP) — The objective of the AI Business Plan Presentation (BPP) is to assess the team’s ability to develop and present a comprehensive business model.
  2. Real World AI (RWAI) — The Real World AI event is predominantly a technical event and will focus primarily on the team’s understanding of the real-world challenges for autonomous vehicles.
  3. Autonomous Design — The concept of the design event is to evaluate the student’s engineering process and effort that went into the design and development of the AI system, and its vehicle integration.
  4. Simulation Development — The purpose of this event is to evaluate the student’s understanding of simulation within the autonomous vehicle development workflow

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The BPP and RWAI do not depend heavily on the autonomous system development, so they can effectively be done independently.

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