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Well, I'm a driverless car developer (albeit for a very special use case, and definitely not in Yandex), please show me a decent "GPS/INS integration" which wou
by ansgri 9y ago
Well, I'm a driverless car developer (albeit for a very special use case, and definitely not in Yandex), please show me a decent "GPS/INS integration" which would be cheaper than, say, $1500 and would be of any use on the road and will be readily documented. With many sensors, the likes of Bosch make many good parts, but if you're not a giant auto maker, you won't be getting any documentation. And AFAIK even if you are a giant auto maker, Bosch will make the entire system for you, and you won't probably get access to implementation details.
Also, there aren't really any good high-performance industrial (dust and vibration proof) computers on the market, at least not to be bought easily. Please don't suggest NVIDIA -- starting with only a decent GPU is not an option, you'll need quite a few GFLOPs of general computing power to solve all that navigation, control, and, importantly, self-diagnostics.
By high-performance I mean at least a full four-core desktop i7 or Xeon, not some mobile CPU.
> Most of the hard problems today involve dealing with other road users.
The problem is, you won't get to dealing with those road users before you reconstruct the previous 20 years worth of technology in-house. It's not like there is some ready-to-use open source Stanley-level software.
- Animats 9y agoWe had a $5000 Novatel GPS. It didn't have INS integration, and required a subscription to a sat-based correction service. For the 2004 Grand Challenge, CMU had a unit which required 4U of rack space and air conditioning. There's been progress.
- ansgri 9y agoOf course there's been progress, or we wouldn't be able to even start working on this project with such limited resources as we have now — that's like $5000 for total hardware (still 4u rack though, +INS, +cameras, no corrected GPS), the main problem being the inability to buy something like tBOX [0] with a more powerful CPU. Though we are counting on both our system getting optimized and industrial PCs catching up in a year or two. What I meant to say, though things are a lot simpler now, they are not that simple to discount the Yet Another™ lidar-based self-driving car. [0] http://www.axiomtek.com/Default.aspx?MenuId=Products&FunctionId=ProductView&ItemId=23429&upcat=264 http://www.axiomtek.com/Default.aspx?MenuId=Products&Functio...
- Animats 9y agoYou need more money than $5K to work in this space.
- ansgri 9y agoWell, I'm talking only about additional hardware cost per car. To work in this space you primarily need a partner from auto industry, and that partner may be interested in automated driving only if the additional hardware cost is minimal.