Four robot mini-cars. A complex network of tunnels. A race against the clock. This was the final test crafted by an MIT professor for what could be the greatest college class ever.
Despite the course title’s tortuous name — Rapid Autonomous Complex-Environment Competing Ackermann-steering Robot — its acronym, RACECAR, gets students’ curiosity revving.
The students’ challenge: Build a self-driving mini-robot car that can zip around a tunnel maze track while navigating its twists and turns.
MIT's Sertac Karaman holding a robot mini-car designed using NVIDIA Jetson TK1 devkit.
Speed racer: MIT’s Sertac Karaman and his robot mini-car designed using the NVIDIA Jetson TK1 devkit.
To give the cars their autonomous abilities, students design and program algorithms using a Jetson TK1 embedded computer. Jetson TK1 helps the 1:10-scale cars deploy the open-source Robot Operating System, assess their environment and develop a language to help them race the fastest while careening around th
- See more at: http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/10/07/robot-racecars-jetson/#sthash.OhPMpU8z.dpuf
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