How I built a self-driving (RC) car.
I have been taking Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course. The lecture module on Neural Networks ends with an intriguing video of the ALVINN autonomous car driving itself along normal roads at CMU in the mid 90s. I was inspired by that video to see what I could build myself. A link to my incomplete write up was posted a couple of weeks ago (ouch!) but I finally finished it and open sourced the code tonight (so you can build your own self driving car). What do you think? http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar https://github.com/dps/nnrccar
How I built a self-driving (RC) car. launched on January 2, 2012 with 300 votes, #5 of 306 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
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This project demonstrates how to build a self-driving RC car using neural networks, inspired by the ALVINN autonomous vehicle from the 1990s. It is designed for people learning machine learning who want to apply neural network concepts to a practical robotics application. The creator has open-sourced the complete code and documentation, allowing others to replicate the project and experiment with autonomous vehicle control systems.
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