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OpenBot leverages smartphones as brains for low-cost robots. We have designed a small electric vehicle that costs about $50 and serves as a robot body. Our software stack for Android smartphones supports advanced robotics workloads such as person following and real-time autonomous navigation.
https://www.openbot.org
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[help wanted] Where can I get the pre-trained models (or detailed instructions)? #248

Closed omer-re closed 2 years ago

omer-re commented 2 years ago

Hi, I am building my OpenBot, I was able to get to the stage where it drives using the remote control app and I am now trying to get it to the next step of following objects and autonomous driving.

I couldn't fully understand how to do what described on the demo video on the object detection and following as shown on the demo video #. Is there any place I can find instructions for it? link, video, tutorial etc,.

I have also tried to understand if there are existing pre-trained policy files that I can use (again, as shown on the demo video).

I know it can be fun to train it on my own, but I would first like to have some baseline, and I couldn't find some nice guide or tutorial for it, not the files for it.

I would really appreciate some directions 😁

thias15 commented 2 years ago

For autonomous driving you need to collect data and train your own policy since its specific to your environment. You can try the one provided in the Autopilot fragment but it probably won't work unless your corridors looks very similar.

thias15 commented 2 years ago

For object tracking just open this fragment and activate the auto mode. tempFileForShare_20220107-140407

thias15 commented 2 years ago

Please check out these excellent videos: Person Following: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNKFHX5MRn501oWvPbKzP1zkcqhLU5TOh Policy Learning: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNKFHX5MRn5233AyCWhcn71JdB9qIEa-E