Sponsorship Program - Driverless Teams

Gain access to industry standard real-time software and Driving Simulator environment and boost your team's R&D process.

Welcome to the VI-grade sponsoring initiative for Driverless teams around the world!

We have initiated our worldwide Driverless sponsoring program to support students around the globe in their endeavor to build a more sophisticated autonomous race car. Our software will enable you to gain a competitive advantage through the implementation of advanced technology.

You may apply for up to three Vehicle Dynamics Package licenses and three ADAS Package license for your team. In exchange, we ask you to support VI-grade with your marketing efforts. You will be provided with a basic Formula Student vehicle model in the software package, which you can then align to your actual race car. Additionally, you will have access to a selection of reference material and video tutorials, to help you through your first steps in the VI-Motorsport and VI-WorldSim Offline software environments.
 
(all images courtesy of MMR Driverless - More Modena Racing)
We have two different software packages in the shelf for you:
  1. Vehicle Dynamics Package, containing VI-Motorsport, which helps racing teams to reduce time needed to find the best set-up for a given car on a given circuit and to explore more design variants in less time. Additionally, you´ll get access to interfaces to Matlab Simulink and Hexagon / MSC Adams (Simulink and Adams licenses not provided)
  2. ADAS Package, containing VI-WorldSim Offline, VI-grade´s leading user-friendly, fully integrated graphic environment that accelerates vehicle development. VI-Motorsport will enable you to test new designs and component variants with your drivers without the need for building physical prototypes, while VI-WorldSim allows to develop control logics for your autonomous vehicles by easily creating scenarios and testing your logics through seamless integration with Matlab/Simulink.

Interested in our Sponsorship Program?

In order to apply for a VI-grade software sponsoring, please fill out the following form. You may apply for up to three Vehicle Dynamics Package licenses and three ADAS Package licenses.

Please note the following:
  • You can choose between node-locked licenses (locked to one specific PC) or server licenses. You can also mix both configurations. If you go for server licenses, please tell us how many licenses should go on which server in the comments field.
  • You can also use our software on virtual machines, please indicate accordingly below.
  • To obtain the needed hardware information, please open a command window on the PC/server you want to use and type in "IPCONFIG/ALL"
    • a. For host name, we need the HOST NAME:
    • b. For MAC address, we need the PHYSICAL ADDRESS of your ethernet card (all entries including “virtual adapter” do not apply. If you do not have an ethernet card, you can use the physical address of your WiFi card)
APPLY TO OUR SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
https://www.vi-grade.com/en/about/driverless_sponsorship/