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KFUPM SMiLE Autonomous Mobility Hackathon Powered by Quanser & ATLAB

Join the region’s premier autonomous mobility challenge at the KFUPM SMiLE Conference, where innovation meets real-world engineering. Compete to design, optimize, and deploy a self-driving algorithm that operates like an autonomous taxi—maximizing earnings by completing rides efficiently and intelligently. 

Teams will navigate multi-stop routes, make real-time decisions, and choose tasks intelligently using Quanser’s advanced QCar 2 platform and MATLAB/Simulink (language support: MATLAB/Simulink only). 

Participating teams will create an autonomous system capable of: 

  • Selecting and completing taxi rides to maximize total revenue 
  • Navigating routes with single or multiple stops 
  • Making intelligent trade-offs between ride complexity and payout 
  • Operating within strict time limits during each competition phase 

On competition day, teams receive a dataset containing coordinates and multi-stop ride details—your algorithm must do the rest. 

Find all the competition details hereSMiLE Self-Driving Car Competition