Don’t Crash : Just Stop with Style
Problem Statement
The goal of this project is to build an agent to perform autonomous driving in a simulated environment. Autonomous driving is an important area of research as it can make roads safer by helping to reduce the number of avoidable accidents caused by human error in driving. It can also allow those with disabilities or senior citizens to be able to travel independently and safely. Simulation is key to self-driving research, because we can test customized situations without facing real-world consequences. For our project, we have been using AirSim, a simulation environment created for autonomous driving research and tested our agent on various objectives, such as longest distance without crashing (around 3 kilometers!), longest time without crashing (approximately 7 minutes), smooth driving, and interacting with moving pedestrians and vehicles. We employed Computer Vision algorithms for perception and trained an Imitation Learning agent along with Reinforcement Learning agents to perceive and act in our simulation. Check out our presentation slides for the project here and our demo below!
Demo Video
Technical paper
Access paper PDF here
Engineering Design Document
Access EDD here
Team
- Abhilash Karpurapu
- Abhivineet Veeraghanta
- Haripriya Dharmala
- Jaimin Patel
- Naga Sanketh Vysyaraju
- Shreya Kunchakuri
Implementation
Check out the detailed implementations for more information below.
Repository
Fork the repo here: Github