Midterm: High Fidelity UAV Simulation Using Unreal Engine with specular reflections

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller my proposal under the mentorship of Aaron Hunter and Carlos Espinosa aims to Develop a Unreal Engine based simulator for testing. The simulator will be using Unreal Engine for the physics and visualization.

What we have done so far

We found that we can use Unreal Engine as a physics simulator and co-simulate with Simulink using the tools provided by MathWorks.
Simulated a example provided by MathWorks but i wasn’t getting the expected behaviour and there were very few resource available.
So we decided with using Gazebo and ROS for simulation instead of Unreal Engine and Simulink for the example of a balancing bot which had been designed in Solidworks.
For using Gazebo, i had converted the Solidworks model into an URDF and imported it into Gazebo.

Future Work

Currently, i am working on using Gazebo and ROS for controling a balancing bot using a PID control algorithm. Afterwards document the process of import a model into Gazebo for testing a control algorithm.

High Fidelity UAV Simulation Using Unreal Engine with specular reflections

Mon, 29 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As part of the Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller my proposal under the mentorship of Aaron Hunter and Carlos Espinosa aims to Develop a unreal engine based simulator for testing. The simulator will be using unreal engine for the physics and visualization.

The existing framework uses gazebo simulator with ROS which limit the developement to only Python and C++ programing languages. I intend to develope this simulator with intention connecting it with Python and C++, additionaly expanding support to Matlab so that in future the control algorithm design and validation process becomes easier. To smoothen future developement, i intent to add detailed documentation consisting of the developement period weekly report, examples and tutorial. Upon succesful completion, the project will deliver a powerful simulator with realistic simulation using unreal engine and additional support other programming languages like matlab.

For more information about the Open Source Autonomous Vehicle Controller and the UC OSPO organization, you can visit the OSAVC project repository and the UC OSPO website.

Damodar Datta Kancharla | UCSC OSPO

Midterm: High Fidelity UAV Simulation Using Unreal Engine with specular reflections

What we have done so far

Future Work

High Fidelity UAV Simulation Using Unreal Engine with specular reflections