rcortx/CarND-PID-Control-Project

CarND-Controls-PID

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree Program

Roles of P, I, and D

• Proportionnal coefficient (P)
  P term is akin to "drifting" the car toward the CTE, by multiplying the CTE by P value (I find by trial/error that 0.225 was a good value). However, it will never quite reach the CTE, but will oscillate around it. This will results in a not so-safe driving behaviour. That is why we will also use I and D terms.
• Integral coefficient (I)
  I term is to compensate systematic bias. eg. if steering of the car has been wrongly fixed and has a tendancy to steer a bit to the right, the I's term will compensate that. It will accumulate the value of the surface between the position of the car and the CTE over time, and multiply this by the value of the I's term. I gave chosen to first set this value to a very small number since theres is no sysmtematic bias coded in the simulator. It appeared later that i obtained better results by just setting it to 0.
• Differential coefficient (D)<br/ Once the car began to steer tomards the CTE, it will be aware of it and start to counter-steer. This is done by the differential term, wich goes smaller as the car drives towards the CTE. This will avoid the over-shooting previously caused by the P controller alone. My first try was to set it to 3.0, but I found out it has little effect to the simulator when setiing higher value.

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Dependencies

• cmake >= 3.5
• All OSes: click here for installation instructions
• make >= 4.1(mac, linux), 3.81(Windows)
  • Linux: make is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: install Xcode command line tools to get make
  • Windows: Click here for installation instructions
• gcc/g++ >= 5.4
  • Linux: gcc / g++ is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: same deal as make - [install Xcode command line tools]((https://developer.apple.com/xcode/features/)
  • Windows: recommend using MinGW
• uWebSockets
  • Run either ./install-mac.sh or ./install-ubuntu.sh.
  • If you install from source, checkout to commit e94b6e1, i.e.

    git clone https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets 
    cd uWebSockets
    git checkout e94b6e1
    

    Some function signatures have changed in v0.14.x. See this PR for more details.
• Simulator. You can download these from the project intro page in the classroom.

There's an experimental patch for windows in this PR

Basic Build Instructions

1. Clone this repo.
2. Make a build directory: mkdir build && cd build
3. Compile: cmake .. && make
4. Run it: ./pid.

Tips for setting up your environment can be found here

Editor Settings

We've purposefully kept editor configuration files out of this repo in order to keep it as simple and environment agnostic as possible. However, we recommend using the following settings:

• indent using spaces
• set tab width to 2 spaces (keeps the matrices in source code aligned)

Code Style

Please (do your best to) stick to Google's C++ style guide.

Project Instructions and Rubric

Note: regardless of the changes you make, your project must be buildable using cmake and make!

More information is only accessible by people who are already enrolled in Term 2 of CarND. If you are enrolled, see the project page for instructions and the project rubric.

Hints!

• You don't have to follow this directory structure, but if you do, your work will span all of the .cpp files here. Keep an eye out for TODOs.

Call for IDE Profiles Pull Requests

Help your fellow students!

We decided to create Makefiles with cmake to keep this project as platform agnostic as possible. Similarly, we omitted IDE profiles in order to we ensure that students don't feel pressured to use one IDE or another.

However! I'd love to help people get up and running with their IDEs of choice. If you've created a profile for an IDE that you think other students would appreciate, we'd love to have you add the requisite profile files and instructions to ide_profiles/. For example if you wanted to add a VS Code profile, you'd add:

• /ide_profiles/vscode/.vscode
• /ide_profiles/vscode/README.md

The README should explain what the profile does, how to take advantage of it, and how to install it.

Frankly, I've never been involved in a project with multiple IDE profiles before. I believe the best way to handle this would be to keep them out of the repo root to avoid clutter. My expectation is that most profiles will include instructions to copy files to a new location to get picked up by the IDE, but that's just a guess.

One last note here: regardless of the IDE used, every submitted project must still be compilable with cmake and make./

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