BENGALURU: Students of Sapthagiri College of Engineering in the city have developed a minature prototype of an autonomous car which move in a pre-trained path by lane detection, obstacle avoidance, path planning and behavioral cloning tech.
Initially the camera images as well as correspondent readings from sensors like IMU, Ultrasonic are sent through an Arduino computer.
The key feature of this project is that with only the help of a camera, it maps the entire surrounding, for which huge companies pay large amounts to install lidars for generation of HD maps.Â
With the current vehicle, some of the practical applications are in the field of irrigation, military usage such as surveillance to name a few. Some of the future objectives of this project involves developing a generalized model for various paths and localities.