== **Self-Driving Vehicular Project**\\

**Project Team**: Aaron Cruz [UG], Arya Shetty [UG], Brandon Cheng [UG], Tommy Chu [UG], Vineal Sunkara [UG], Divya Krishna [HS], Siddarth Malhotra [HS]

**Advisors**:  Ivan Seskar and Jennifer Shane


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**Project Description & Goals**:\\
Build and train miniature autonomous cars to drive in a miniature city. \\
RASCAL (Robotic Autonomous Scale Car for Adaptive Learning): Using the car sensors, offload image and control data onto a server node. This node will use a neural network that will train the vehicle to move around on its own given the image data it sees through its camera.

**Technologies**: ROS (Robot Operating System), Pytorch


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**Week 1**:\\
Slides: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_K0UlIok6UAKQ4FFww5lPMrha5UKXG6zL87LEalwGbc/edit?]


Progress:
- Familiarized with past summer's work: GitLab, RASCAL setup, software architecture
- Debugged an issue with RASCAL's pure pursuit

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**Week 2**:\\

Slides:

Progress:
- Setup X11 forwarding for GUI applications through SSH
- Visual odometry using Realsense Camera and [https://wiki.ros.org/rtabmap_ros/TutorialsOldInterface/StereoHandHeldMapping#Bring-up_example_with_RealSense_cameras rtabmap]
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