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Amazon gets to keep the winners models?
Must the training be done in their cloud?
You don't strictly speaking need the cloud for training a DeepRacer model, although cloud access (via the DeepRacer console) could be the path of least friction.
Much of the source code for training DeepRacer on AWS can be found on the amazon-sagemaker-examples github repo [1].
The sample training environment relies on Gazebo [2] which, while freely available, has a managed AWS offering [3]. But ultimately, you should just be able to deploy an RL Coach model to the device [4].
[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/deepracer/latest/developerguide/...
[1] https://github.com/awslabs/amazon-sagemaker-examples/tree/ma...
[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/robomaker/latest/dg/simulation-t...
[4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/deepracer/latest/developerguide/...
It's cool that they are making a more packaged product. For a more hackable setup the original Donkey Car setup is pretty good and available now: http://www.donkeycar.com
Of interest , the DeepRacer does reinforcement learning while donkeycar has a completely different approach (supervised learning). It would be interesting to see them compete
This is incredibly cool, and I'd love to enter, but despite having one of the races in Sydney, the actual DeepRacer hardware doesn't ship outside of the United States. Baffling from a company that has a local presence in Australia. If anyone from AWS is reading, I'd love to buy one!
Any idea if you can enter your own homebrew system? I mean, the hardware listed isn't really all that special. You could probably take this: https://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccar/ Slap it on new-ish Samsung or Apple phone, coupled to a cheap-ish RC car... That'd probably get you 80% of the way; also, check out NVidia's "End-to-End" self-driving vehicle paper: https://images.nvidia.com/content/tegra/automotive/image…
The whole idea of the competition would be to use the same hardware so it's a level playing field from a hardware perspective which turns it into a software competition, right?
Why is the age limit 18?
Edit: Thinking more about it, it's even worse. "Hey kids, robotics is a toy for kids to play with."
Why is the age limit 18?
For some reason most robotics contests seem to be restricted to highschool students. It's bizarre. It's like "Hey kids get into STEM because robots are cool! OK now stop and go build accounting software." Edit: Thinking more about it, it's even worse. "Hey kids, robotics is a toy for kids to play with."
I guess the same holds true for other adult things like paint-and-sips (you drink and paint a picture) though, so maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze.
Is it hotlapping or a race? One is a lot easier than the other as evidenced by codemasters's valiant attempts to write AI over the last few years. Also, it looks like they don't know the track beforehand but they seem to be taking absolutely bizarre lines through bends (Or is that an artifact of the model used?)
This is hotlapping, it seems. A race would be cooler.
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For some reason most robotics contests seem to be restricted to highschool students. It's bizarre. It's like "Hey kids get into STEM because robots are cool! OK now stop and go build accounting software." Edit: Thinking more about it, it's even worse. "Hey kids, robotics is a toy for kids to play with."
I think a big part of it is because as an adult with the time, inclination, some money, and programming skills you're expected to just go off and build things. I guess the same holds true for other adult things like paint-and-sips (you drink and paint a picture) though, so maybe you've come across an untapped market for bot-and-booze.
I am so down for this. Maybe I should organize something.