Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide

Re:Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide by jaytaylor on Sunday May 22, 2016 @06:02PM (#11750477)

Pretty cool that they have the source code up on github: https://github.com/AutoRally/autorally

Looks like it's mostly C++, Python, and Arduino.

I wish I could find where the power slide learning algorithm is, but browsing around I'm not sure where that portion is in the project.

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Re:Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide by SolarNet on Sunday May 22, 2016 @06:37PM (#11750591)

It's a learning system, power sliding is a result of the entirety of it's learning.

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Re:Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide by wingerlang on Monday May 23, 2016 @02:26AM (#11752261)

I think it would be a result of the car turning left, loosing traction and automatically see that to get to its position it would have to turn right - balancing itself out and with that the slide just happens.

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Re:Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide by repler on Monday May 23, 2016 @10:04AM (#11753894)

I agree, it's super impressive on video - also could not find the learning algorithm.

I would expect it to eventually "learn" that it can go much faster on the straightaways, or find the best line around the curves.

It is definitely exciting, impressive, and very cool. So much opportunity, and so much progress already.

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