Autow

Automatic Towing Project for ECE148 - Autonomous Vehicles

Our Presentation!

Autow Demo Video

Features

• Joystick RC car control
• AR Tag Detection and Pose Estimation
• Autonomous tow hitch lineup to trailer with dynamic steering
• Asynchronous driver cancellation during autonomous hitching

Steps for running

1. cd to your ros2_ws
2. colcon build --packages-select autow_ros
3. source install/setup.bash
4. ros2 launch autow_ros autow_launch.yaml

Helpful Docker commands on Robocar

• robocar_docker ros_container
• docker start `docker ps -q -l`
• docker attach `docker ps -q -l`

Audio on Jetson Nano

• sudo pulseaudio --system -D to start PulseAudio
• pax11publish -r to enable connection to PulseAudio