aws-deepracer/aws-deepracer-launcher

Build robotics applications with AWS DeepRacer device software and hardware: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMHRKQG

AWS DeepRacer core application overview

The AWS DeepRacer vehicle is a Wi-Fi enabled physical vehicle that can drive itself on a physical track by using a reinforcement learning model. This repository contains the robot application code shipped with the AWS DeepRacer hardware. It also includes examples demonstrating how you can extend the AWS DeepRacer application for new scenarios. For example, the Follow the Leader (FTL) sample project shows how you can use object detection and navigation to modify the vehicle application to follow you as you move about in a room.

If you are a first-time user, do the following:

1. Read What Is AWS DeepRacer?. This is the documentation for AWS DeepRacer. It provides more details about the AWS DeepRacer vehicle, training and evaluating models, and more.
2. Read Getting started with AWS DeepRacer. In this tutorial, you learn how to install the latest AWS DeepRacer code and then build and run the AWS DeepRacer application.
3. Explore the Follow the Leader (FTL) sample project. This sample project changes the behavior of the vehicle application. Your vehicle will try to follow you as you move about a room.
4. Explore the Mapping sample project with ROS Noetic on Ubuntu 20.04. This sample project uses SLAM with a RealSense™ D435/D435i camera on ROS to map and localize an environment.
5. Learn about the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2. The AWS DeepRacer application is based on ROS 2 Foxy.

Build your sample project

Create a simple HelloDeepRacerWorld example application to understand the basics needed to build your own sample project. Read the Create your sample project guide.

aws-deepracer-launcher's Issues

device_console package is missing

The instructions on https://github.com/aws-deepracer/aws-deepracer-launcher/blob/main/getting-started.md work well; with the exception that the files in /opt/aws/deepracer/lib/device_console are not public / part of the installation for a custom stack, and need to be kept/copied manually.

Files should probably be part of https://github.com/aws-deepracer/aws-deepracer-webserver-pkg

To specify a bit further:
"Running the latest packages" does not contain instructions on how to add device_console; the "Updating the deepracer-core service" should work, but as it copies 'on top' unclear what other remnants of the original build will stay.