About

About

I have been interested in programming, data analysis and broadly understood modeling for many years and I follow a development of technology and machine learning algorithms with a great interest.

One of the very interesting areas is the self-driving cars development. Big automotive and technology companies have long been researching in that filed and every year bring better and more advanced driver-assistance systems.

As it turns out, on the Internet you can find a lot of interesting projects and attempts to use small models of electric cars to learn / develop autonomous control systems. The widely available RC car models (radio / remote control) are perfect for this purpose. These are small-sized (usually 1/10 scale) electric cars that are remotely controlled by radio waves. Their construction faithfully reproduces the full-size models and the performance can surprise with top speeds exceeding 50 km / h.

I became interested in the idea of building a small self-driving car because the vision of the project that combines elements of electronics, mechanics, modeling, machine learning and programming fits my interests perfectly. Of course, the question immediately arose what would such a car be used for and where could it be driven? It was then that the idea of creating a self-driving model that could drive on a mini racetrack was born.

Although the idea seemed to be a quite abstract at the same time it was very fascinating and that’s why I decided to take it up.

After many months of programming, experimenting and solving numerous problems, I managed to achieve my goal – collision-free and fully autonomous run on the mini racetrack. Of course, this is not a final version yet, but I thought that this is a good moment to present my project and create SmartModels.