Hyundai Mobis Hosts Autonomous Vehicle Competition for Youth Engineering Leaders

Seoul Osan High School Real Stone Team Wins Grand Prize

[Asia Economy Reporter Yu Je-hoon] Hyundai Mobis announced on the 29th that it held the 'Youth Engineering Leader Autonomous Vehicle Competition' last weekend at Hana High School in Seoul. Ten high school representative teams from across the country, who passed the preliminary rounds, participated in the final competition that day.

The students participating in the finals each coded the software algorithms of autonomous vehicles equipped with cameras, LiDAR sensors, and DC motors, demonstrating advanced autonomous driving skills.

As part of its social contribution activities, Hyundai Mobis operates the 'Youth Engineering Leader' program in collaboration with the National Academy of Engineering of Korea and Incheon National University to help high school students grow into core software talents for the future car era. The program consists of three stages: volunteering, education, and research activities, in which students actively participate over the course of one year.

The autonomous vehicle development project is part of this program, where students are educated to build autonomous vehicle models themselves and program software algorithms. Students develop software algorithms that enable specially made autonomous vehicles to recognize lanes and obstacles and move according to signals. Traffic lights and crosswalks are randomly placed on the road track, and the main evaluation criteria are the number of derailments, trial and error attempts, and completion time, with the goal of developing the most perfect autonomous vehicle.

In this competition, the RealStone team from Osan High School in Seoul won the final championship and the grand prize. In addition, certificates and prize money were awarded to a total of 10 teams that reached the finals, including the Excellence Award and the Merit Award. Park Jin-ho, head of Hyundai Mobis Communications Office, stated, "We will continue to actively support youth interested in science and technology to nurture them as future engineering leaders."

Meanwhile, students selected as youth engineering leaders will visit local children's centers in the future to participate as one-day teachers in junior engineering classes, conducting science lessons for elementary school students. Also, students who participated in the final competition will be assigned mentors and advisory professors and will participate in publishing papers related to autonomous driving technology in academic journals published by the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

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