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June Edition: Self-Driving Cars

6 articles about autonomous vehicles that you have to read.

Kalman filter: Intuition and discrete case derivation

By Vivek Yadav – 6 min read.

In this post, we will go over derivation of a discrete Kalman filter. We will first set up equations of a system governed by discrete dynamics, then express the approximate system, compute error covariances and calculate an update rule that minimizes error covariance. As estimation via kalman filtering involves successively measurement and state propagation, they are easier to understand in the case of discrete implementation.


Vehicle Detection and Tracking

By Ivan Kazakov – 7 min read.

This is the Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program final project for the 1st Term. Source code and a more technically elaborated writeup are available on GitHub


How Self Driving Cars steer

By Priya Dwivedi – 5 min read.

A typical self driving car starts with the perception system, which estimates the state of the surrounding environment, including landmarks and vehicles and pedestrians.


Helping a Self Driving Car Localize itself

By Priya Dwivedi – 4 min read.

Localization, or knowing "where am I" is critical for a self driving car. At every instant it needs to know where in the world it is. When we drive a car we use GPS and Maps App to know where our car is. But GPS have an accuracy of 1–3 meters, sometimes more. This won’t work for a self driving car since this is a width of a lane.


Lane Detection with Deep Learning (Part 1 & Part 2)

By Michael Virgo – 10 & 9 min read.

People can find lane lines on the road fairly easily, even in a wide variety of conditions. Unless there is snow covering the ground, extremely heavy rainfall, the road is very dirty or in disrepair, we can mostly tell where we are supposed to go, assuming the lines are actually marked.


Vision Needed

By Harish Vadlamani— 13 min read.

Well, I did it! I finally completed term 1 of Udacity’s Self-Driving Car Nanodegree. The past three months has been a bumpy ride to say the least and I have successfully steered through the obstacles faced during this time, both virtually and figuratively!


We also thank all the great new writers who joined us recently Peter Sweeney, Martin Schmitz, PhD, Keith Kwan, Johnny Dunn, Dionysus Powell, Abhijit Brahme, Sanatan Mishra, Michael Ho, Erik Langenborg, Ivan Kazakov, Erin Pangilinan, Sampreeti Bhattacharyya, Rene Buest, juan.mateos-garcia, Corentin Dugué, Taylor Kilian, Brendan Bailey, Chris Venteicher, Balázs Kégl, Utah Engineering, Henrik Lindberg and many others.


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