[ExI] Robot cars can do drifting now

[William Flynn Wallace]

This should make robot racing cars produce much more human-like driving.
(Though not as many crashes as humans!).  :)
BillK

Are you aware that many of the crashes in auto racing are intentional?
Some are paybacks for the last lap or the last race or whatever.  They
often try to crash another car without crashing theirs and sometimes fail
and crash a whole bunch of them, including their own.  Sure, it's cutting
off their noses to spite their faces.  I didn't say that they were smart,
or trying to appeal to smart people.

Will robot cars hold grudges?  bill w

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 10:44 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Autonomous Mini Rally Car Teaches Itself to Powerslide
> By Evan Ackerman Posted 18 May 2016
>
> <
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/autonomous-mini-rally-car-teaches-itself-to-powerslide
> >
>
> Quotes:
> The real magic here is the algorithm that manages AutoRally’s steering
> and throttle. Rather than hierarchically splitting control and
> planning into two separate problems, Georgia Tech's algorithm combines
> them by integrating vehicle dynamics in real-time. Generally, this is
> a very computationally intensive approach, but AutoRally can calculate
> an optimized trajectory from the weighted average of 2,560 different
> trajectory possibilities, all simulated in parallel on to the monster
> onboard GPU. Each of these trajectories represents the oncoming 2.5
> seconds of vehicle motion, and AutoRally recomputes this entire
> optimization process 60 times every second.
> --------------
>
> The video is six minutes long and shows some crashes during testing
> after the five minute mark.
>
> This should make robot racing cars produce much more human-like driving.
> (Though not as many crashes as humans!).  :)
>
>
> BillK
>
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