miniav 0.0.3

MiniAV Project

MiniAV Project

The MiniAV project is meant to be a testbed for automated driving algorithm development and is to be used as a mechanism for validating the simulation platform Chrono. The MiniAV platform is under activate development by the Simulation Based Engineering Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Background

The MiniAV platform provides the following resources for expediting development of autonomous algorithms:

1. A parts list and instructions on how to build the physical platform
2. A high-fidelity simulation environment built using Chrono that accurately models the vehicles dynamics and sensors
3. A development workflow for writing ROS 2 code and premade algorithms to control the vehicle through a closed cone course
4. A database system to expedite data recording and parsing and an accompaning command line interface

Setup

To setup the miniav cli, it is fairly simple.

Using pip

The miniav package is also available on PyPI. To install it, run the following command:

pip install miniav

From Sources

Or, you can install the miniav package from sources. To do that, clone the miniav repo locally:

git clone [e-mail]:uwsbel/miniav.git
cd miniav

Then, use setuptools to install the miniav package:

python setup.py install

Note: If you're planning on developing the package, you may wish to install it as symlinks:

python setup.py develop

Test the demos

You should now be all set up!

You can test the installation by running the demos in demos/. They demonstrate the CLI and the python API.