2024-04-11 Racing Working Group Meeting

[pojenwang]

Administrative

Previous Meeting Minutes

Attendees

• Po-Jen Wang (AWF)
• Mitsudome-san (Tier.IV)
• David Walmroth (Open AD Kit / Pix-Moving)

Minutes: Po-Jen Wang

Topics

AV4EV go-kart simulator

• Started working on the digital twin of the Purdue Grand Prix Track at Purdue University where the AKS competition will take place in late May. This environment will allow the team to test various perception and planning algorithms in a race track environment

• Successfully recreated the main track and ready for testing. This includes a race track with realistic asphalt textures and goal markings, line boundaries and orange cones on both sides of the track, and everything set on a large grass field

• Other parts of the track environment that will be added shortly: the pit stop lane of the race track, a small bridge that crosses over the track, fences that go around the track environment, other objects such as trees

• SodaSim team also successfully added ackermann_control ROS2 interface to the simulator
  
  

• Purdue Race Track (last year's winning run)

• Early demo video of the environment

• TODO:
  -- Pointcloud map building and Autoware integration
  -- Test existing algorithms for perception(grass and cone detection) and planning(pure-pursuit, gap_follow) in this race track environment

Other topics:

• AWF Work Group overview: https://autoware.org/join-a-work-group/