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Autonomous racecar project at MIT. The RACECAR platform runs on Robot Operating System (ROS). Driven autonomously in the MIT tunnels under Building 32.

Team 9 Racecar

Autonomous racecar project at MIT. The RACECAR platform runs on Robot Operating System (ROS).

Nvidia Jetson TX 1 embedded super-computer with Hokuyo UST-10LX laser range finder, Stereolabs ZED stereo camera, Structure.io depth camera, Sparkfun IMU.

Implemented both full-scale SLAM approach and reactive approach.

SETUP

    1. Go to shell-scripts and install the awesomeness
    1. Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-geographic-msgs
sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-tf2-geometry-msgs

Running

roslaunch launcher racecar_teleop.launch
roslaunch navstack navstack.launch
rosrun navstack freespace_goalplanner.py

Demo

Full Result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsP1LJmKhw