NTU DeepSpeed · Recruitment Hackathon 26/27

Drive fast. Don’t crash.

Submissions closed on 18 October 2026. 27 teams entered across the two tracks and 20 finished. These two took the flag.

Track 1 winnerCalcuLOL8.0354 s best lap80.4370 s adjusted total Track 2 winnerTAISP extreme ros2 team #19.0660 s best lap92.1309 s adjusted total

The brief

Write the software that drives a 1/10-scale racing car around a circuit it has never seen, as fast as it can, without hitting anything.

Two tracks, two simulators, one problem. Teams of three to five picked a track, wrote a driver and pushed it, and every push raced on GitHub Actions. Judging ran on one machine and took its times from the simulator’s own clock, so nobody’s laptop decided the result.

How it was scored

Score = 50×fastest lap of any teamyour fastest lap

+ 50×fastest 10-lap total of any teamyour 10-lap total

Collision+10 s on the lap, each. More than 10 is a disqualification.

Teams3 to 5 people, one team per person

JudgingOne machine, timed by the simulator’s clock

Results

Final standings for both tracks, ranked by score. Select a track to see every team that entered.

RoboRacer Autonomous Racing

f1tenth_gym with a ROS 2 bridge. Ask the car for a speed and a steering angle, and the simulator holds the speed for you.

Circuiticra26 · 17 × 18 m · 78 m lap

ControlAckermannDriveStamped — ask for a speed

TimingOur referee, against a finish line

Read the Track 1 guide

Plan of the icra26 circuit: a squarish 17 by 18 metre corridor that runs round the outside, doubles back through the middle past a hairpin, and is marked out with cones.

Pos	Team	Best lap s	Adjusted total s	Lap pts /50	Total pts /50	Score /100
1	CalcuLOL	8.0354	80.4370	50.00	50.00	100.00
2	Caeser Salad	8.6833	86.9832	46.27	46.24	92.51
3	Thunder McKing	11.6250	116.4601	34.56	34.53	69.09
4	AftergIOw	12.0168	120.1987	33.43	33.46	66.89
5	The fifth gear	12.6677	127.0324	31.72	31.66	63.38
6	AUTOMAN	12.7021	127.0252	31.63	31.66	63.29
7	Assigned Team 2	13.7100	137.1000	29.30	29.34	58.64
8	niubi	16.4772	165.0497	24.38	24.37	48.75
9	Assigned Team 1	16.8679	168.7614	23.82	23.83	47.65
10	ClaudeGP	17.8573	180.9318	22.50	22.23	44.73
11	deepspeedo	18.7234	187.2502	21.46	21.48	42.94
12	Deepsped	19.4319	194.6844	20.68	20.66	41.33
13	Wind2win	19.6717	196.7447	20.42	20.44	40.87
–	Octonauts					DNF
–	Assigned Team 3					DNF

RoboRacer Sim Racing on AutoDRIVE

AutoDRIVE, the Unity simulator the ICRA 2026 teams raced. The car takes raw throttle, so the speed controller is yours to write.

CircuitICRA 2026 compete · 6.3 × 18.2 m · 54 m lap

ControlFloat32 throttle in [−1, 1] — torque

TimingThe simulator's own clock

Read the Track 2 guide

The ICRA 2026 compete circuit seen from above in AutoDRIVE: a long, narrow loop, 6.3 by 18.2 metres, with a tight hairpin at one end and an inner section running back down the middle.

Pos	Team	Best lap s	Adjusted total s	Lap pts /50	Total pts /50	Score /100
1	TAISP extreme ros2 team #1	9.0660	92.1309	50.00	50.00	100.00
2	Chitti 3.0	11.2209	112.7680	40.40	40.85	81.25
3	OG7	11.3930	116.3688	39.79	39.59	79.37
4	SpecialNeeds	10.9318	124.1189	41.47	37.11	78.58
5	JfK	12.5785	125.9920	36.04	36.56	72.60
6	WanWanahNiyiwei	11.6721	190.6815	38.84	24.16	62.99
7	Simplicity	16.4946	171.1503	27.48	26.92	54.40
–	Yappers					DNF
–	Speed and Depth					DNF
–	Big Black Charizard					DNF
–	bruh					DNF
–	Assigned Team 4					DNF

Highest score ranks first. Adjusted total is the best 10-lap total after collision penalties. DNF means the team did not finish.

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