You cannot punch down. Sure. But if someone is getting fired from their job for making a joke 7 years ago despite repeatedly apologising for it, you might want to rethink where the centre of the power lies. Comedy, by default, is not meant to be taken seriously. Comedy and…

Vehicle dynamics model of articulated trailer vehicles and their yaw stability states — What is an articulated vehicle ? It normally looks like the figure below. It has a pivot joint that allows it to turn sharply. Articulation is particularly helpful in case of longer vehicles as it helps with the turn but it also poses its own challenges. Handling Behavior of an…

List of my favourite Stand-up Comics, their styles and why I like them — Growing up during the 90s in India, I was always interested in comedy. I would try to watch all the comedy shows that are there on Indian TV during those times. Those days, stand up wasn’t that popular in India — very few people were doing it and even they…

Lane Detection using Gradient, Colour Thresholding and sliding window algorithm — In my earlier post, I talked about finding lane lines using Edge Detection and Hough Transforms. While Canny edge detection is great in finding the edges, it gives you a lot of edges in the picture, all of which are not relevant for the lane finding. In this post, I…

Lane Detection using Edge Detection and Hough Transform — How does coding a Lane finding system in an active video feed sounds? It seemed ubercool to me when I did this project with Udacity back in 2017. At that point, the aim was just to know enough basics and code a system somehow to get to the end result…

Lane keeping is the one of the most basic and easy task done by the driver. It could be as simple as keeping the steering wheel steady on a straight road but even there, due to the external disturbances, the vehicle tends to drift from the lane. The naturalistic driving…

Lateral dynamics For the control of lateral motion of the vehicle, it is critical to model the lateral dynamics. Lateral motion control is used in various ADAS features like lane centering, lane keeping etc. The lateral dynamics models are also imperative in modeling vehicle behaviours during the lateral manoeuvres and can be…

My introduction to Computer Vision happened in 2017 when I was doing Self-driving Car Nanodegree from Udacity. The first semester was mainly related to Computer Vision and Deep Learning which sparked my interest in the subject. This post would cover some basic introduction of Computer Vision as well as Camera…

This could be treated as part 2 of the spring rates post. When the vehicle goes through the corner, it experience the roll motion when the roll center of the vehicle doesn’t coincide with the vehicle center of mass(which usually is the case). Vehicle roll motion affects the wheel loading…