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Nicole G.

Autonomous RC Car

This was one of my hardest and most rewarding project i've done. It's a modified off-the-shelf rc from a big box store. TLDR: It's a self driving car...kinda but it works!

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Project Overview

Our overall goal was to simulate real-world driving situations such as driving in between lanes, turning, and speed adjustment while avoiding other cars to reach the end of track. The project design objective is to complete two vehicles (two modified RC cars) for this scenario. One autonomous vehicle and one manual controlled vehicle to simulate other drivers. Key features of the project include the autonomous vehicle with two driving modes (manual control and self-driving) and a radio-controlled vehicle.

Testing of our proposed design lead to feasible working prototype. The team created a custom radio-controller, our own TCP command processing communication system and worked upon well-known computer vision processing ideas to process lanes.

I had so much fun contributing to this project and creating the control systems. Check out our demo video, code repo, and team Notion board below!

Tools Used

Python
C++
Open CV
GIT
Conda
Arduino
Raspberry Pi 4B