Robotics: Prototyping Vehicle Control Applications using CAT Vehicle Simulator

How to test your vehicle control in a simulation

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The talk of autonomous vehicles has gained a media frenzy in recent years and billions of dollars have been poured into making this technology realizable both by industries as well as academia and government agencies across the world. In an autonomous vehicle, the key component of navigation is autonomous vehicle control. Such autonomous vehicle control might use sensors and feedback for making control decisions. While it remains elusive for a beginner to create such control applications, in this article, I will explain how to use the CAT Vehicle ROS package to create and test such vehicle control.

Before you move forward, make sure to go through my previous article in this series to install ROS and CAT Vehicle package:

1. https://rahulbhadani.medium.com/robotics-install-ros-noetic-on-ubuntu-20-04-for-autonomous-driving-applications-d0a3e9eae4f3
2. https://rahulbhadani.medium.com/robotics-cat-vehicle-simulator-for-developing-control-applications-e6b19d7b3751