On December 23, the Department of Electronic Engineering at Kookmin University (Dean Moon Chan-woo) held the award ceremony for the 2024 Infineon-Freescan Autonomous Driving Controller Design Competition, which was organized and sponsored by Infineon, Siemens, and Workon Simulation. In this competition, the autonomous driving algorithm designed with the model predictive control (MPC) was run on Infineon's automotive microcontroller and verified on Siemens' PreScan autonomous driving simulator.

The participating students developed an adaptive cruise control (ACC) algorithm using the MPC technique and then executed the generated code on Infineon's AURIX automotive microcontroller. They also verified the results through the FreeScan autonomous driving simulator and demonstrated the controller performance on the simulator.

Director Seung-yoon Ryu of Infineon Korea and Professor Koo-min Jung of the Department of Electronic Engineering attended the award ceremony and presented the certificates. Director Seung-yoon Ryu of Infineon Korea said, “This competition is an example of industry-academia cooperation and will help advance vehicle control and autonomous driving technology. I look forward to continued progress.”

Professor Jung Ku-min, who is the director of the Infineon Center and the Garrett Motion Center, said, “I am grateful to Infineon of Germany, Siemens, and Garrett Motion of Switzerland for supporting us to hold a good competition. I hope it will help students in their practical training and employment in the future.”