Computer Controlled RC Cars at Doshisha

The controlling software, external and onboard camera views of the computer-controlled scale model of a racing car. Parameters of the driving style adopted by the controlling agent are automatically optimized via evolutionary algorithm.
Details: http://isd-si.doshisha.ac.jp/itanev/ModelCars.htm (more)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• RC
• car
• PC
• computer
• control
• software
• evolution

[asjadathick2011]

with the instructions, you have given in the web page, approximately how much would it cost me to build this system??

[tanevivan]

@asjadathick2011:

Without the PC, the cost of components is between US $100~$150. The cost for thinking, developing and programming is not included too :-)

[ParaHelix]

Fantastic work and I think your project is fantastic too, all I would like to know is, did you make the software your self or did you compile/download it from another location, if you used any kind of tutorial could you please send me the link? I would love to do this project, I am a tripple A level ICT student. Also, do you know ANY good tutorials for making a simple WiFi controller RC car? I would be VERY thankful for any help, great work, keep it going!

[tanevivan]

Thanks for the comments. Yes, I developed the software from scratch. I am not aware of any downloadable tool that can control a RC car in that way. We have a paper in the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: I.Tanev and K.Shimohara, Evolution of Agent, Remotely Operating a Scale Model of a Car Through a Latent Video Feedback. It's available online via SpringerLink (ISSN 1573-0409), and will be printed soon.

[tanevivan]

The software consist of the following five subsystems:

i) image processing (to determine the cars's position in the current video frame),

ii) perceptions processing with Kalman filtering (to determine the car's velocity and orientation from the difference between the current and previous video frames),

iii) anticipation (dealing with the video latency, from the current perceptions to anticipate the intrinsic position, velocity and orientation)

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[tanevivan]

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iv) parametrization of the driving style and the algorithm of control, and

v) evolutionary framework to automatically optimize the values of driving style parameters.

[signuputub]

ftw!!!!!!!!!!!!! how u do that!

[FatMonsterIsEatin]

more easy with arrow keys

[nuggert]

Now i want to build a nascar race track with 14 cars so I can have Toy cars race in my house! then ill play the immitation sounds of this race in surround sound, with a commentator .

[berndiggydiggy]

This could be used to make real war just like an rts!

[traineepilot57]

awesome ,cool is it easy to manipulate?

[takeiteasy76]

why don't you use a servo and a speed control unit to control the steering and throttle more smoothly ? Great job anyway, congradulations!