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 ECD 407 completed our senior design project and accomplished our required and stretch goals of operating a modified RC car autonomously on a track with variable throttle, and the ability to detect and avoid objects.
 
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+I'll add more details once the semester ends:
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+Summary of my contribution:
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+•	Led team of four to implement object detection and object avoidance on autonomous RC car running Linux on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano.
+•	Debugged Python errors to get functional RC car. Trained road following and object detection models.
+•	Configured steering gain, steering bias, offset, min/max/cruise speed, turn/straight speed variability to maximize performance of car on track. Made local news.
+•	Set up PyTorch, Torch2trt, torchvision, JetCam, JetRacer, Jetson-inference. Installed inertial measurement unit driver.
+•	Configured Jupyter Lab Server to auto-launch on boot, assign itself IP address, and broadcast on local network.
+•	Upgraded stability and speed of model training by installing NVMe drive and setting up 4GB swap partition to expand total available memory to 12GB from 8GB.
+Evaluated power requirement to select battery pack to power NVIDIA device.
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 Project experience video for now:
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