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Clemson-University: 10weeks F1Tenth - Clemson 10 Weeks

F1Tenth - Clemson 10 Weeks


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About This Course

Whether it's well-known car manufacturer like Tesla or new technology companies like Google: many different companies are working on the development of autonomous vehicles. This emerging field provides a lot of potential and if you are interested in learning the foundations of autonomous driving, then this course is for you.

But don't be worried about that this is another theory-only lecture series: In this course we will work hands-on and lab centered for everyone who is interested in the field of artificial intelligence, motion planning, control theory, and applied machine learning. From the very beginning we will introduce you to both a simulation environment and real hardware: Our 1/10th-scale autonomous race car.

We will not only teach you the fundamentals of autonomous driving in the field of perception, planning and control and how to program them. We will also show you how to bring your autonomous driving algorithms on the real F1TENTH Hardware. By focusing on the racing environment you will also learn how to develop algorithms that operate on the edge of vehicle dynamics: High accelerations, high velocities and high computation frequencies.

In the 15 week course we will provide you the most comprehensive learning experience in the field of autonomous driving and teach you about the theory and programming of methods and algorithms in the field of perception, mapping, localization, trajectory planning and control. As an add on we will have a discussion about the moral implications of autonomous systems.

What you'll learn

After attending the course you will have a comprehensive overview of the perception, planning and control methods used in autonomous driving. You will be able to select the appropriate method and algorithm for various autonomous driving problems and then implement it with appropriate code. In addition you are able to program the F1TENTH Autonomous Race car to drive fast and safe around a racetrack. In addition you will learn:

  • Introduction to the ROS framework
  • Refresh your control theory knowledge
  • Control theory and control application
  • Introduction to an Simulator for autonomous driving
  • Different techniques for localization of the car
  • Different techniques for the fast and secure path planning
  • Different methods for calculating the raceline for a given track
  • Different methods for detection an object
  • The deployment of software on real hardware
  • GPU acceleration for Machine Learning algorithms
  • Differences between SiL and HiL development
  • Head-to-Head racing
  • Differences between SiL and HiL development
  • Analytics skills to recognize and reason about situations with moral content

Prerequisites

This course is an integration of the concepts above and is not intended to be a beginner course in any of the above subjects. As of right now, the contents on this website are best suited for the graduate-level if not at the very least an undergraduate senior-level course.

Course Staff

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Prof. Dr. Venkat Krovi

Prof. Venkat N. Krovi is the Michelin Endowed Chair of Vehicle Automation in the Departments of Automotive Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. The underlying theme of his research activities has been to take advantage of the “power of the many” (both autonomous-agents and humans) to extend the reach of human users in the dull, dirty, and dangerous environments. These efforts at analyzing and realizing the potential of distributed-autonomy and human-robot synergy has unlocked new opportunities in wide ranging applications in plant-automation, consumer electronics, automobile, defense and healthcare/surgical simulation arenas

Frequently Asked Questions

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Do i need to buy and built the F1Tenth Hardware?

The car is an additional add-on and provides you the important insight in the deployment of the software on real hardware.

  1. Course Number

    10weeks

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  4. Estimated Effort

    20 hours per Week
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