Looking back, 2020 has been a really weird year. I had just started my new job as a consultant, and my first assignment at a client, when the Netherlands went into lockdown. By mid-march, I was completely working from home and was left with a lot of spare time. I...
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Switching drive modes on the Jetbot
And mapping drive modes with NeoPixel LEDs
This weekend, I worked on the different driving modes of the Jetbot2. As explained in a previous blog post, the robot is designed to have 3 driving modes - full teleop, semi-autonomous (linear velocity via teleop, angular velocity via the autonomous node) and fully autonomous. Each mode is given a...
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Finally naming the blog
And some goals for 2021
Although its still my Instagram handle, it was time to move on to a more original name for this blog. So, after a great deal of thought, Kamath’s Blog is now Level 5 - Level 5 (or L5) is the top level of the self-driving automotive standard. A L5 car...
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Driving the Jetbot with a Joystick
and working with OpenCV in ROS
The last few weeks have been particularly successful. Although I spent less time on this project than I normally do, I managed to accomplish a lot. For starters, I got the Jetbot2 to work with a Sixaxis Joystick (the same one I had integrated in the ROSCar). This finally let...
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Moving to an NVIDIA JetBot with ROS
+ Testing a RPLidar A2 for another project
Since the last update, I have spent time doing NVIDIA’s 2 Days to a Demo program that contains a lot of resouces about training, retraining and deploying AI models with some of NVidia’s own python notebooks and ROS. I have learnt mainly about classification, object detection and semantic segmentation using...
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