RESEARCH: Donkey Car (aka Autonomous Car)

Donkey Car

• https://www.donkeycar.com/

• https://www.donkeycar.com/faq

• https://store.donkeycar.com/collections/frontpage

Jetson Nano and Donkey Car

• https://medium.com/@feicheung2016/getting-started-with-jetson-nano-and-autonomous-donkey-car-d4f25bbd1c83

Jetson Nano Jet Racer

• https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/JetRacer_Assembly_Manual

RESEARCH: AWS DeepRacer

AWS Deepracer League

• https://aws.amazon.com/deepracer/league/?trk=ps_a134p000006Br6gAAC&trkCampaign=2020_ML_DeepRacer_League_adopt&sc_channel=ps&sc_campaign=SEM_RSA_DR&sc_outcome=adopt&sc_publisher=Google&sc_detail=rsa_DeepRacer%20Brand&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!429157069333!e!!g!!aws%20deepracer&ef_id=Cj0KCQjwnv71BRCOARIsAIkxW9HbmvpAdAcJGE7goMsmzjU-_5S7DO7gb4TXaZkhiR8a7icfn79DRJAaAhRdEALw_wcB:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!4422!3!429157069333!e!!g!!aws%20deepracer!9504932631!99627040031

Deepracer description

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/

Intel Atom processor

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-deepracer-go-hands-on-with-reinforcement-learning-at-reinvent/

RESEARCH PHASE

WORK IN PROGRESS BELOW —————————————————————-

Mark Jay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNauclJhSyE&list=PL0WH13AjrpidcMrH9RqBsoVFV4K6K24yc&index=74&t=0s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-y6rXdsomw&list=PL0WH13AjrpidcMrH9RqBsoVFV4K6K24yc&index=75&t=0s

https://gist.github.com/markjay4k

Sentdex

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeETZEOy4VdocT7TOjfSA8a

https://github.com/sentdex/pygta5

Note: There was a MacOS implementation (GitHub) of the game button press - can’t find it at the moment, perhaps it was linked to Sentdex video or Github

https://github.com/wassgha/pygta-mac

https://github.com/wassgha

http://gharbi.me

PROJECT VISION & GOALS

VISION

• This project was actually started back in 2018 based on the Youtube example. I’ve since advanced in my skills related to the concept of autonomous driving and a simple “line following” AI project was no longer appealing.

• As I was learning more and more related to the higher concepts of the reinforcement learning, I began thinking about building a ‘AI simulation’ where I can test the concepts of the different techniques. I am considering recreating this project on my development computer for such use.

GOALS - 2020

• Build self-driving AI that plays simulated racing game - AI should be able to “detect” any game displayed on the screen (I will be using a Steam Auto Racing Simulator) and press keys to drive the car.

• The system needs to be developed to be scalable in order to support other racing games and/or even flying FPV drone racing games (e.g. 3D drone flying game rather than 2D auto racing game)