Code a Car

Final Presentation

Pictures

We had a very successful camp and we had a lot of fun! Here are some pictures from the camp.


GEM Vehicle	Lab Visit	Group Photo


Lecture	Working	Presenting


Demo	Highbay	IRL

Camp Leaderboard

https://summer-camp-2022.herokuapp.com/

“Code a Car” is a day camp that will take place at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Building 5072, and will give participants an exciting hands-on experience in creating the brains of an autonomous car. During the camp, learners will write code for lane detection, autopilot, planning, and run this code on simulated vehicles. On the last day, if all goes according to plan, students will have the opportunity to deploy their code on a real car!

Campers will:

Learn about technology that is embedded in autonomous vehicles
Use industry standard software to write code for lane detection, autopilot, planning, and run this code on simulated vehicles.
Work collaboratively with other campers to solve problems
Learn how to debug and fix code

Dates: The GRAIC team will be hosting a summer camp for highschool students at UIUC over August 1-5, 2022.


Simulating Lane Detection	GEM vehicle

Schedule

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
8:45 AM	Check-In (ECEB)	Check-In (ECEB)	Check-In (ECEB)	Check-In (ECEB)	Check-In (Highbay)
9 AM - 12 PM	Introduction to autonomy and Python Tutorial	Computer vision and lane detection: Convolution, edge detection	Control concepts: stability and performance	Planning Algorithms	High Bay Field Trip
Noon - 1PM	Lunch Break (Hendrick House)	Lunch Break (Hendrick House)	Lunch Break (Hendrick House)	Lunch Break (Hendrick House)	Lunch Break (Sack Lunch)
1 - 3 PM	Linux Command, ROS, Gazebo vehicle simulation, CARLA, Steering Wheel Sim	Develop and test lane departure system	Waypoint following controller designing and testing	Testing end to end driverless car code	Deploy Code (E.g. Lane Detection) on autonomous vehicle
3 - 5 PM	Lab Visit	Lab Visit	Lab Visit	Visit to Highbay	Final presentation and camp conclusion ceremony

Final Presentation Template

Location

ECEB Lab 5072

Please use the Wright street entrance to the ECEB.

Highbay

Highbay is located near iHotel.

Lab Visits

Tuesday

Human-Robot Fist Bump Human & Intention Tracking for Collaborative Assembly

Demo by Ye-Ji Mun from Prof. Katie Driggs-Campbell’s Group

Illinois Robotics Lab

Human-Robot Fist Bump: The Kinova retrieves a human’s fist pose from its mounted camera and follows the human’s fist movement using visual servoing technique.
Human Intention Tracking for Collaborative Assembly: A human worker and a UR5e robot work together to assemble industrial connectors. After the human aligns the connector parts, the UR5e pushes the aligned connectors for their insertion.

Wednesday

RTAB-Map & Image Goal Navigation

Demo by Justin Wasserman from Prof. Girish Chowdhary’s Group

ECEB 5072

Preview of Justin’s demo:

Organizer(s)

Yan Miao will be your camp coordinator. Yan is a 2nd-year grad student at Illinois under the advisement of Prof. Sayan Mitra. His primary research focuses on improving the safety of autonomous systems, mainly autonomous vehicles and drones. His recent work includes involves learning-based robotics and reinforcement learning in the area of self-driving cars.

Raj Joshi will be the assistant coordinator. Raj is a undergraduate student majoring in Statistics and Computer Science at Illinois. His was part of the Generalized Racing Intelligence Competition, working on developing autonomous testing pipelines to evaluate autonomous vehicle controllers.

Sayan Mitra had the brainwave of creating this camp. He is a Professor at Illinois and does research on autonomous systems.