Abstract-Problem of transferring and testing self-driving algorithms developed in virtual environment to a physical environment is explored by transferring a Convolutional Neural Network based self-driving car steering algorithm from virtual environment to physical RC card based environment for validation and testing as a step on the way for full scale selfdriving car tests. In the process a novel approach for synthetic training data generation from single camera is developed, thus reducing the real world physical requirements for the algorithm and demonstrating the improved self-driving algorithm development pipeline from fully virtual environments to scaled physical models, to full self-driving cars, potentially leveraging the global developer community for development.Index Terms-Convolutional neural network, training data generation, self-driving cars, virtual and physical models.
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