40-VirtualRacing: The Parking Lot Nerds Development Repository

1 background

It all started at a parking lot...

A few guys meet there, discussed after a long meetup evening, came up with a crazy idea and made it happening. We met at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 with more guys from Oakland, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Ottawa, Shenzehn, Stuttgart and many more countries. Now we're calling us the Parking Lot Nerds and are heading towards our new venture: Virtual Autonomous Racing.

Thanks a lot to Ed & Tawn (Oakland), Nic & Paul (Ottawa), Dave (Ann Arbor), Linda & Wallarug (Shenzhen), Benjamin (Stuttgart) and especially Alex (Detroit) for literally driving the extra miles down to Stuttgart and making our journey to Silicon Valley / Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 a once in a life time experience.

2 preparation

• Tawn's gist
• Ottawa, Paul: Virtual-Hack-And-Race-Workshop
• Ottawa repo with an early model

3 data

4 training

5 models

models trained by others

• naisy

6 Leaderboard

7 twitch.tv channels

• DAVG
• Oakland
• Stuttgart

8 Quick Start

8.1 Run your model

(donkey) rainer@neuron:~/mysim2$ python manage.py drive --model=models/lane_keeper.h5

8.2 In your browser goto

http://localhost:8887/drive

And set mode to local pilot

9 Races

First Ever Virtual Racing League @DIYrobocars, April 25th, 2020

• Japan

10 Reinforcement Learning (very experimental!)

Credits

• https://diyrobocars.com
• https://github.com/tawnkramer/gym-donkeycar
• https://github.com/Maximellerbach/Virtual_Racing
• https://github.com/robocarstore/donkey-car-training-on-google-colab/blob/master/Donkey_Car_Training_using_Google_Colab.ipynb
• https://github.com/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Group/donkeycar
• https://github.com/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Group/donkeycar-pln
• https://github.com/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Group/sdsandbox-pln
• https://github.com/Ottawa-Autonomous-Vehicle-Group/Simulator_racer
• https://github.com/Sashulik/DIYRobocars-Virtual-Racing-League (main repo)
• https://github.com/hogenimushi/donkey_data