Dr. Short and the PhD students went to the RSS conference this week and I got to spend some time at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach! Favourite quote from my time at the CEEO “you’re reading in a mechie lab!?” - Dr. Chris Rogers. They had lots of fun stuff going on there and I loved talking to people who were approaching almost every task they were doing with pedagogy in mind. One group was designing a course and were having a tough time finding a good tutorial for setting up a virtual machine on their Mac so they made their own tutorial! I dislocated my kneecap last weekend so I ended up staying at home a lot and decided to cope by getting a LOT of technical work done. This week I…
- Built a basic ROS project from onboarding
- Learned about Markov Decision Processes
- Learned the basics of Reinforcement Learning via DeepLizard’s course.
- Learned about Q-Learning from sentdex
- Set up MediaPipe for pose recognition to control robot pose
Feeling really pumped and drained at the same time after time week!