Chalmers Cup in Self-driving

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Connect to your car

Setup up a WiFi with the following settings:

SSID: <animal> (lowercase) Password: Donkeycar2021

You can do this on your your phone, or similar.

The car will connect to this network and start the server immediately after being turned on.

How to control your car

Connect to the same WiFi LAN as your car and you will be able to control it remotely. To test this, navigate to http://<animal>:8887/drive, here you will see a camera feed from the car and controls for steering/throttle. Your program will use the same underlying interface to programmatically drive the car.

The camera feed

You can find the camera feed at http://<animal>:8887/video. Do with it whatever you like. If you don't have any other preferences, we suggest you try using OpenCV to fetch and analyze the feed.

The steering and throttle

To steer and throttle the car you send a simple message to it over WebSocket. The address here is ws://<animal>:8887/wsDrive.

The message you send is in JSON format and should look like this:

{
	"angle": 0.0,
	"throttle": 0.2,
	"drive_mode": "user",
	"recording": false
}

The angle property goes from -1.0, for full left, and 1.0, for full right. Likewise, the throttle goes from -1.0, for full reverse, and 1.0, for full forward.

Don't mind, or change, the other properties.