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 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

alvier in Technopark Zürich             © AMZ

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Photo shot with alvier and pilatus driverless 2020 at the Swiss Museum of Transport                                        © AMZ

 Design Phase                                  At the same time, various testing days     meetings and focus on the tasks at
                                               were organised to gather data for          hand. Motivation was never an issue
   With the start of the Christmas             evaluating the current concepts. The       and the flow of information is always
season, the design phase is slowly but         analysis of the data, which is still an    provided thanks to the efficient use of
surely coming to an end. The lack of           ongoing task, will allow the team to get   communication and collaboration tools.
Christmas feeling and markets did not          every last bit of performance out of       Thanks to our generous sponsors, the
stop us from giving our best to make the       alvier.                                    new projects can be put into production
most of the already driving car alvier.                                                   very soon which allows us to mount
Concepts were developed, some were              Outlook                                   them on the car and test them earlier
discarded and others are being realized.                                                  compared to previous years. This, in
Since the detailed concepts freeze on            Despite regular office hours not being   turn, will consequently lead to optimal
November 14th, we have been working            possible during most of the current        systems that are specifically designed to
hard to finish the last bits of our projects   season, we were able to maintain good      work on alvier.
which need to be sent to manufacturing.        team spirit, have a laugh during virtual
electric

alvier on one of the last testing days                                                                                                                                                                                  © AMZ

 Christmas Greetings                                                               to be done until then so we better start
                                                                                   now! In the name of the entire electric
  The Christmas break will be a short                                              team, we want to thank all of our
one but nevertheless, we are eager to                                              sponsors without whom the whole
complete the design phase and use the                                              project would not be realisable! We wish
momentum to start the new year in a                                                you a Merry Christmas and a Happy
proper fashion. There is still a lot of work                                       New Year!

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3M Schweiz                   A. Jäggi AG                     Admec AG                  AGVS                      Akkushop-Schweiz        ANB Boumi AG                 Ausbildungsverbund AarauWest    Bach Heiden
BAUMANN Springs Ltd.         Berner Fachhochschule           BERNINA                   Bomatec                   Bossard                 Brander Präzisionsmechanik   Brunner Präzisionsschleiferei   Büchler Reinli + Spitzli AG
Cimform AG                   Compona                         Domsel AG                 ebm-papst                 EDAG Engineering GmbH   Enclustra GmbH               Expressdruckerei GmbH           Facom
Falegnameria F.lli Bugada    Flyeralarm                      formbar                   Fritz Born AG             FURKA Reibbeläge AG     Garage Stucki AG             GDELS – Mowag                   Generelli SA
GKD                          Glatt-Lack AG                   Goodfellow Ceramics       H.A. Schlatter AG Fonds   HABA                    hasler ag                    Högg                            HS Composite
Influx Technology            Jürg Huggler-AG                 KISSsoft AG               Kistler Automotive GmbH   Kubo Tech AG            MAN                          Melasta                         MessX AG
Metall Service Menziken AG   Mirolit AG – Fam. Hönger        mta-mechatronic           Müri PROTOTECH AG         NOVAGEAR AG             Oerlikon Group               P Mec Sagl                      RacingFuel Academy AG
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG   Rigi-Kühler AG                  Rofam GmbH                RoViTec                   SATW                    Schaeffler                   Schaffner GmbH                  Scientific IT Services
SKF                          Stäubli Electrical Connectors   Sturmberg GmbH            Styro 3D GmbH             Swiss-Composite AG      Venturi AG                   Verwo                           ZF
driverless

Move to the new workshop in Dübendorf                                                                                       © AMZ

 Goals                                       we aim to stay in first place of the         segments which are also reflected in our
                                             competition by improving our lap times       team structure. In an effort to give you
   After a virtual beginning to the new      in all dynamic disciplines of the            an insight into our software pipeline, we
season, we are now coming together to        competition. Specifically for Trackdrive,    will shortly introduce its components. In
celebrate the most beautiful time of the     we want to be able to beat the human         the Perception module, LiDAR and
year. In the upcoming months, our            driver. Additionally, we set ourselves the   camera data is fused and analysed with
driverless team will continue to work on     goal to be rigorous with static              the goal of predicting the track markings
pilatus,     with some exciting new          disciplines. There we will convince the      reliably and with a far lookahead
challenges. This is the time to thank our    judges with a solid business plan, a cost    distance. The Estimation module
generous sponsors for their continued        report and thoughtfully developed            calculates and maps the driveable area
support and trust. Our team is thankful      technical design concepts.                   using SLAM algorithms. This precise
for the incredible opportunity to continue                                                model of the car’s environment is then
the driverless legacy.                        Modules                                     used in the Control module to calculate
   While we are separated in space, we                                                    and strictly follow the optimal race line.
                                               Third time’s the charm; since 2019,        Additionally, we have introduced the
are united through Slack, Trello and the
                                             where we first worked with pilatus, it has   Simulation & Data Analysis module,
mosaic panels of Google Meet, which
                                             been our trusted companion. The              which is working on photorealistic
we used to collectively create our goals
                                             complex autonomous racing problem            simulation and the accessibility of our
for the 2021 driverless season. In our
                                             can roughly be separated into three          terabytes of data.
pursuit to uphold the legacy of pilatus,
driverless

Virtual meeting of the driverless team                                                                                                   © AMZ

 Move                                            providing us with a new space for our
                                                 workshop!
  Both AMZ driverless and electric have
recently moved their workshops to the             Outlook

newly built Innovation Park in
Dübendorf. From now on, AMZ will work               Through     these   changes,     our
there alongside other exciting projects          dedication and passion for autonomous
and teams of the ETH Zurich like ARIS            driving persist. In the name of the
(Akademische     Raumfahrt     Initiative        driverless team, we wish you a relaxing
Schweiz), E-Sling and Swissloop. We              winter break, happy holidays and a
would like to thank ETH Zurich for               successful new year. Stay healthy!

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Akkushop Schweiz   DTC AG       Maxon Motor AG       Mirolit AG - Fam. Hönger   Optiprint   SATW   ZF Friedrichshafen AG   3d-prototyp
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