Hear me out. Artificial intelligence for controlling the robot

[OpenSourceIdiot]

I have heard of many people using neural networks for autonomous. Though I have not seen them In actual competitions. It has been talked about extensively in other threads.

Artificial Intelligence

I am going to try to start programming an artificial intelligence to control our robot’s autonomous period. Has anybody done this before? I think that it is going to be rather difficult (if at all possible), so any help would be greatly appreciated. I wonder if @jpearman has any information that might help. I do think this could lead to some rather interesting conversations. For example: Other Alliance: “So what does your autonomous do?” Us: “Whatever it feels like.”

Use of AI in VRC

So I would consider myself to be a decent programmer. I have made a lot of unnecessary things for fun because I tend to have a lot of extra time during our robotics meetings. This year I was thinking about making a simulation, possibly in Unreal Engine or Unity, to train a neural network to make the highest scoring auton, and potentially react in real time during matches. Would this be allowed? I know there aren’t actually any rules about not having a pre-programmed sequence run during driver s…

Reinforcement Learning

Any ideas to create Autonomous mode for my robot. I am trying to implement Reinforcement Learning to do this. The only problem, is that I can’t use PyTorch or Tensorflow which is already a trained framework. So to solve this solution I must create my own neural network and train my robot. How would I do this?

It can be a fun experiment for autonomous, though for most cases simple PID and odometry works better. I don’t believe it would be very viable for driver control. There are just too many variables to consider. Neural networks are powerful, but not more powerful than a good driver.