Week 2

Our main task this week was to set up the system and the software environment to ensure that Jetbot's functions work properly and that the neural network model is built properly.

Software Setup

System

First we installed Jetpack 4.4, which is a Linux Ubuntu-based operating system. Many essential tools for machine learning are built in, such as python3, PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, etc.

Linux Ubuntu

However, our software level build did not go well. Since the three of us did not have much exposure to Linux, we were not able to solve many software environment building problems. (Even though we spent the most time on environment building)

Debug

We successfully installed the system and installed some of the software. Next, we managed to connect to Jetbot remotely from our laptop via Jupyter Notebook and LAN, but there were always some errors, and we tried many ways to solve them.

Complete

Later we sought the help of our academic advisor, Professor Jeremy Smith. With his help we solved most of the problems at the software level, mainly at the operating system level.

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