优达学城-自动驾驶工程师学习笔记 -2
------Lession 1 Introduction
Get an introduction to the program, discover the services we provide, and get a sneak-peek at the incredible projects you`ll build
Table of Contents
4 What Projects Will You Build?
6 Prepare for the Udacity Talent Program
8. Rating Your Career Confidence
第一课主要是一个概括性引入介绍,一共分为12 part:
1. why self-driving Cars ?
Sebastian (谷歌工程师)以个人亲身经历为引介绍自己为什么会投入到无人驾驶这个领域,目前的一些成果,前景以及换人学员的学习和加入。
My name is Sebastian, I welcome you to our self driving car nanodegree.
The self driving car started when I was 18. One of my best friends in the neighborhood died in a traffic accident. His life went away in no time. And back in the day, I asked myself, why is it that we have these machines that are great on one hand, but still kill so many people? It stuck with me for a long time. And when I joined Stanford in 2003, the US government had just launched a competition called the DARPA Grand Challenge. It1s a competition where a self driven car had to drive through an empty desert in California. Our car Stanley, named after Stanford, was a blue, beautiful Volkswagen Touared. and lo and behold we won the competition.
My team joined Google in 2009 to build a self driving car that could drive on public streets where we all drive. And when we were ready to tell the public about it, we had deiven not just 100,00 unique miles for the self driving cars. But we`ve also driven pretty much the hardest streets in California you can imagine, completely self driven. We drove from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
The technology has been in development for many,many decades, but the breakthroughs are often most recent years. More than self driven cars now we have proven others can drive safer than humans can drive and automotive companies and tech companies are struggling to find great enginners to keep up.
This is the self driving car nanodegree program and when you are finished, you`ll have the skills to drawing this cutting edge industy. We are super excited to have you with us.
2. Meet Your Instructors
Sebastian 介绍该课程的另外两个老师:David Ryan
David : 原Ford 无人驾驶工程师
Ryan: 天体物理学家(astrophysicist)
3. Overview of ND Program
无人驾驶技术研发的两种方向:
- 机器人技术
The robotics approach fuses output from a suite of sensors, to directly measure the vehicle surroudings and then navigate accordingly.
- 深度学习:
Deep neural networks allow self-driving cars to learn how to drive, by mimicking human driving behavior.
之后简单介绍课程学习的流程(分模块学习无人驾驶技术的一个层面,以及每个模块需要完成一个Project用来验收学习成果)
学习交流论坛:https://knowledge.udacity.com/
4. What Projects Will You Build?
介绍课程的Projects:
- Find Lane Markings
If it can`t find lane markings, you will have no clue where to drive.
- Advanced Lane Finding
Key Word : Computer Vision
When you and I drive a car, we use our eyes more than any other organ to understand what to do. Computer Vison does this the same capability into computers. Uses cameras, and we learned how to extract things like lane markings and other vehicles out of camera images.
- Traffic Sign Classifier
Key Word : Deep Learning
we`re going to train a neural network to find traffic signs and images.
- Behavioral Cloning
Key Words: Clone,deep learning, neural networks
The learning program will copy and clone human behavior such as our steering actions and brake and gas actions. When we train people, we don`t train them by giving them the rules, we train by letting them learn from examples. you are going to apply neural networks, deep learning to camera images and do some of the very things that a self -driving car ought to to right.
- Extended kalman filter (卡尔曼滤波器)
Key Words: Sensor fusion
It is the science how to integrate different types of sensors. come up with a single clear picture based on these different modalities.
- Kidnapped vehicle
Key Words: Localization
- Path Planning Highway Driving
- PID Controller
- Put your code in a real self-driving car
5. Access the Career Portal
Career Portal 广告
6. Prepare for the Udacity Talent Program
广告part: Udacity Profile
7. Community Code of Conduct
约束规定
8. Rating Your Career Confidence
问卷调查
9. Self-Driving Car History
picture- Stanley, The car that sebastian Thrun and his team at Stanford built to win the DARPA Grand Challenge
10. The Great Robot Race
Vedio ---documentary on the seminal DARPA Grand Challenge
11. Self-Driving Car Quiz
quiz
12. C++ Readiness
- C++ 的一个免费课程:https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/ud210
- C++ 的评估 : 免费课程的Part 15