This repository contains the results of Team "Wow That Was Fast"'s capstone project for the Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program. The project utilizes Ubuntu Linux 14.04 with Robot Operating System (ROS) Indigo and/or Ubuntu Linux 16.04 with ROS Kinetic, the Udacity System Integration Simulator, and code written in C++ and Python to provide a System Integration solution to the self-driving car problem. The code developed will be tested on Udacity's real-world test vehicle (a Lincoln MKZ that the company has named "Carla") during December 2017.

Check out our results in the Udacity simulator:

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Team Members

Name	Location	LinkedIn
Kyle Martin (Team Lead)	Phoenix, Arizona	linkedin.com/in/kylemart
Farrukh Ali	Los Angeles, California	linkedin.com/in/farrukhtech
Michael Matthews	Sydney, Australia	linkedin.com/in/michael-matthews-59378933
Daniel Kröhnert	Duesseldorf, Germany	linkedin.com/in/daniel-kröhnert-411235128
Jordan Lee	Tucson, Arizona	linkedin.com/in/TBD

Native Installation

• Be sure that your workstation is running Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus or Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahir. Ubuntu downloads can be found here.

• If using a Virtual Machine to install Ubuntu, use the following configuration as minimum:

  • 2 CPU
  • 2 GB system memory
  • 25 GB of free hard drive space

  The Udacity provided virtual machine has ROS and Dataspeed DBW already installed, so you can skip the next two steps if you are using this.

• Follow these instructions to install ROS

  • ROS Kinetic if you have Ubuntu 16.04.
  • ROS Indigo if you have Ubuntu 14.04.

• Dataspeed DBW

  • Use this option to install the SDK on a workstation that already has ROS installed: One Line SDK Install (binary)

• Download the Udacity Simulator.

Docker Installation

Install Docker

Build the docker container

docker build . -t capstone

Run the docker file

docker run -p 4567:4567 -v $PWD:/capstone -v /tmp/log:/root/.ros/ --rm -it capstone

Usage

1. Clone the project repository

git clone https://github.com/kylemartin1/CarND-Capstone.git

2. Install python dependencies

cd CarND-Capstone
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Make and run styx

cd ros
catkin_make
source devel/setup.sh
roslaunch launch/styx.launch

4. Run the simulator

Real world testing

1. Download training bag that was recorded on the Udacity self-driving car (a bag demonstraing the correct predictions in autonomous mode can be found here)
2. Unzip the file

unzip traffic_light_bag_files.zip

3. Play the bag file

rosbag play -l traffic_light_bag_files/loop_with_traffic_light.bag

4. Launch your project in site mode

cd CarND-Capstone/ros
roslaunch launch/site.launch

5. Confirm that traffic light detection works on real life images