The Idea
I wanted to have an AI robot that could navigate around the house by itself.
How It Works
The robot has a camera, and a motor controller underneath the chassis. It also runs the Juypter Notebook software. This means that the Jetson on top, can control where and how the robot moves. It can also use the built in functions in Jupyter Notebook which will help me. I followed a turorial on how to train an model running on the Jetson, that would make it not hit objects. I first had to take lots of picutres of what was "Blocked" and what was "Free". This would teach the model and tell it when it is too close to an object. After taking the pictures, I trained the model on the Jetson. When I tried it out, it worked!
Challenges
I had to build the model twice, because the first time I built it, there wern't enough images of "Free" and "Blocked". This meant that the model didn't work very well, and it would hit objects. I had to take more pictures, and then train the model again. After doing this, it worked much better.
After retraining the model, the robot was able to navigate around the house without hitting objects. It was sorta like a Roomba, but it was better!