Hall of Fame
Celebrating the people who built Formula Trinity Autonomous, and kept it going from one team to the next.
2018/19 and 2019/20: The Early Project
Autonomous began in late 2018. The early team leaders still need confirming.
2020/21: Founding Group
The Autonomous racing group was founded in 2020 by Andrew Dai, Jakub Pyszka, Senan Stanley and Katherine Hardgrave.
We qualified for and competed in F1TENTH IROS 2020, alongside 17 other teams. We then co-hosted the AI Grand Prix in 2021 with F1TENTH and Riders.ai, bringing together 23 robotics teams for a virtual autonomous racing competition.
2021/22
We finished 4th at the in-person F1TENTH IROS 2021 competition, then made our first FSUK appearance in 2022 as Ireland's first FS-AI team. We placed 7th in DDT and 1st in Real World AI. The wider Formula Trinity team also received the Allan Staniforth Best Newcomer and Racing Pride Aston Martin Diversity and Inclusion awards.
2022/23
From November 2022
At FSUK 2023, we finished 16th overall and 2nd in Real World AI. We also moved from camera-only perception to a LiDAR-based solution, using the Livox Avia to detect cones.
2023/24
At FSUK 2024, we finished 13th overall and won the TATA ELXSI FS-AI Autonomous Design award, our first win in that event. The design brought camera and LiDAR perception together through sensor fusion. We also picked up the FS-AI Most Cones Collected award.
2024/25
At FSUK 2025, we finished 12th overall and 2nd in Autonomous Engineering Design. After debugging right up to the end of competition, we got the car making a turn. The wider team also received the Racing Pride Aston Martin Diversity and Inclusion award again.
2025/26
At FSUK 2026, we completed Trackdrive for the first time: 10 laps without hitting a single cone. We also completed Sprint for the first time, finishing 4th in Trackdrive, joint 5th in Sprint and 5th overall, our best FS-AI result yet.
We finished 1st in Real World AI, winning the Atlassian Williams F1 Team Real World AI award, and Gerry Byrne received the HAAS Faculty Advisor Outstanding Contribution award.
2026/27
Systems was created to develop the new Internal Combustion car's autonomous systems. The CTO covers both halves of the team: Software and Systems.