Neural Control Student Projects
Join our F1TENTH Inivincible race car team
We are using our Inivincible F1TENTH race car to test ideas about adaptive nonlinear neural control. PhD student Florian Bolli leads the team.
Contact Florian at bollif@ini.uzh.ch ask about potential projects.
RC sailing is an enthusiast activity where people enjoy sailing remote controlled sailboats around ponds, for example Irchel pond. The aim of Argois to use modern machine learning technology to autonomously sail such a boat, for example, with the objective of a normal sailboat race or to pass a chosen waypoint.
The DragonForce 65 Argo sailboat has a solid state wind speed and direction sensor, GPS, IMU, and embedded RPi linux computer to control the two servos that determine rudder and sail position. We have sailed Argo and collected data on the Irchel pond and during the CapoCaccia neuromorphic workshops (see Argo photo album).
Possible projects:
Collect end to end training data by manually sailing the boat under various conditions.
Develop an interface to a sailboat simulator to collect training data, to explore transfer learning and reinforcement learning approaches in a simpler model-based environment. The model would then need to be validated on Argo to demonstrate it works.
Train and test a sailing controller on Argo.
Contact Prof. Tobi Delbruck (tobi@ini.uzh.ch , 044 635 3038)