Ultra Autonomous Braking in action

Here is a screen recording of our A.I. Mini 4WD simulator showing a video we captured with a smartphone and playing back the data recorded by the on-board computer. The first part of the recording is showing the action in real time. Whereas the second part, we dialled down the playback speed in our simulator to 1/4 of real-time to make it easier to see the details.

On the left is the video we took with a smartphone.

In the middle is the track map with speed target markers (M means max speed, 1.5 means 1.5 m/s) and a purple circle showing the position of the car.

On the right are the gauges, from top to bottom:

• Speed gauge (in m/s)
• Power gauge (in %, B means Braking)
• Yaw (turning left/right, in degrees per second)
• Pitch (nose up/down, in degrees per second)
• Roll (in degrees per second)

The car you see is our A.I. Mini 4WD Mark 8 prototype with the newly added Ultra Autonomous Braking ability. We deliberately set the deceleration rate very low so that the car will brake too soon on the first lap. As you can see in the video, the car learnt and adjusted itself. Then it was pretty much spot on from the 3rd lap onwards regardless whether the car moves a bit quicker or slower.

(Note: This is what we see with our simulator, not a video edit.)

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