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Volkswagen IECC Innovation Challenge
The purpose of this competition was to give employees of the Volkswagen Group of America, Innovation and Engineering Center California an opportunity to gain hands-on machine learning experience. Using Nvidia’s Jetson Nano Developer Kit for our project’s AI computer, we were able to assemble an autonomous, collision avoiding robot. After assembling our robot and training it to follow a course and avoid obstacles, we put our robot to the test by racing other teams. Our robot navigated various complex courses and placed 5th overall.
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This was a great introduction to understanding and implementing machine learning, and I gained experience with the following:
- Python programming on the Jupyter Notebook interface, a common tool for data analysis and machine learning
- Data collection and labeling
- Deep learning model training using collected data
- Tuning and optimizing the model for deployment