Building an autonomous racecar

Today I’ll talk about how I built a fully autonomous racecar with my teammates. Over a 5 month period, I learned and implemented the principles of perception, planning and control into the racecar under the guidance of Professor Behl. My team’s goal was to have our autonomous vehicle smoothly and quickly navigate a race course while minimizing collisions.

Skills Used:

• Robot Operating System (ROS)
• Python scripting
• System Design
• Project Management

Figure 1: The 1/10 scale racecar we built. See if you can spot the LIDAR, GPU and microcontrollers on the chassis.