Thank you Alex for your feedback. What I am really proposing is for others to test their software on our vehicle for the very reason that there are a lot of unknowns that I cannot believe can directly modeled into an ODE type of engine (as you call it.) Several reasons for this:
- one piece of data is the images taken from the vehicle, since we do not use ranging system like lidar, data fusion using imagery and IMU data is at the center of devising a good algorithm for an autonomous vehicle. Unless one were to create a world with different illumination, shadowing (something that would be quite an undertaking on its own), it would not be a perfect fit to try out a new algorithm. Another data stream is sound as recorded in the vehicle, I am not sure on how to generate this type of information. - an ODE engine would mean that the dynamics of the vehicle and the terrain would be known in advance. This is rarely the case. - Our software is being tested on that vehicle already and the vehicle is ready, it would cost us less to try it out on the vehicle directly. Thanks for the pointer on PyODE. Igor. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list