Imperial Driverless unites the most ambitious and skilled students from Imperial College London, set to become the next generation of autonomous vehicle engineers. Sponsoring us is the perfect opportunity to establish your brand among a group of people who, in a few years’ time, are going to make decisions about the software and hardware to use on production vehicles intended for the the autonomous vehicle market bound to grow at an unprecedented rate.
Furthermore, sponsoring us gives you access to the best graduate job and internship candidates, who have passed an incredibly selective recruitment process to become members of the team (>5:1 applications to admissions), in addition to having gotten into the third most selective university in the UK, Imperial College London. Those students already have extensive hands-on experience with autonomous vehicle software design, having worked with the most relevant technologies such as the Robot Operating System, LiDARs, Computer Vision, state estimation, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, motion planning and execution, and many more.
What we are looking for
You can support us in multiple ways. In addition to financial support, without which we can’t function and which we’ll greatly appreciate, we are also looking for vehicle equipment donations and mentorship. If your organization makes or distributes equipment such as sensors (LiDARs, cameras, depth cameras, ground speed sensors, IMUs), computing solutions (anything that can be used to speed up onboard processing), software products (such as vehicle simulations), hardware (e.g. robots we can test on), or anything else which might prove useful, it’s a great opportunity to get the students acquainted and used to it, as well as to promote it among the wider Formula Student AI community. From our experience, seeing that a company’s solutions have been used by a succesful team instantly establishes credibility, so sponsorig us is the perfect way of promoting your brand among the very narrow target group of future autonomous vehicle engineers, which the FS-AI competition attracts.
What we are offering in return
In addition to all the benefits mentioned before, sponsoring us will also mean we’ll include your logo in the branding on our outfits, website, social media profiles, and any presentations and talks we give publicly. We’ll publicly announce that your organization has become a sponsor in Facebook and LinkedIn posts. Whenever appropriate, we’ll post about our experience in using the solutions your company supplies. In addition, major contributors will also be invited to give talks about their companies, offering the opportunity to meet and recruit the students.
Interested? Reach out to us at imperial.driverless@gmail.com