README.md

Challenge 1

Cause the vehicle to brake after detecting a person.

Approach

We create a subscriber for the camera ROS topic to get image frames (input) and a publisher to control the vehicle brakes (output). We run OpenCV's person detection algorithm on input image frames and if a person is found, we publish the brake command to the vehicle.

Demo

Outside Vehicle View

Inside Vehicle Command Line View

Running

For installing some dependencies like, pacmod_msgs and cv_bridge, use the apt-get command like:

$ sudo apt-get install ros-kinetic-pacmod-msgs

For running, startup ROS Core (in one terminal) and run brake.py (on separate terminal).

# start up ROS Core
$ roscore

# run the code in separate terminal
$ python brake.py