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Wow, that’s utterly mind blowing that this was done by a single person. You have to see the video, even if you don’t understand Chinese: https://www.bilibili.co
by nneonneo 5y ago
Wow, that’s utterly mind blowing that this was done by a single person. You have to see the video, even if you don’t understand Chinese: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1fV411x72a
Aside from some help he got from a friend to fabricate the metal parts (he gave up on 3D printing since it was too fragile), it seems he did everything else himself. A very impressive project.
I’d be happy to help interpret a bit what is going on in the video or the project itself. Short story is that it is, by all appearances, a self-propelled bike which uses a central gyro wheel for stabilization and a rear driving wheel for motion. It has an RGBD camera mounted at the front for obstacle sensing, an ESP32 for real-time control using ROS, and a Huawei DaVinci processor running Linux for the sensing with some unspecified computer vision bits. It looks like he custom-designed the PCB to integrate these two processors.
Edited: misunderstood the last bit. He’s not a high school student, but he is a recent university graduate (finished undergrad in 2018).
- aetherspawn 5y agoI don't think that it properly 'self navigates'. It seems to more just be a 'go forward without crashing into stuff' sort of algorithm. If you presented it with a dead end or a traffic cone or something like that, it would probably completely freak out and start oscillating. The navigation seems to be very rudimentary, but props to the creator because it's very good at staying upright.
- 71a54xd 5y agoThat's an incredible video! How one person did this is beyond me, but my hat's off to the creator of this project. I have to say though... the streaming comments overlaid on the video player in BiliBili is beyond annoying.