12.4 Udacity

DataCamp https://www.udacity.com was founded 2014 by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky. Thrun was a Google VP and a Professor of computer science at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University. At Google he found teh Google’s self-driving car team.
Udacity offers courses in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and autonomous systems

Udacity facts:

• Founded 2011
  • Sebastian Thrun
  • David Stavens
  • Mike Sokolsky
• Costs of courses depends on course
  • monthly basis
  • per course
    • self driving car: €179/month
    • roughly 6 months at 15hrs/weeks
• Programs
  • data science
  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence
  • cloud computing
  • autonomous systems
• Certificate
  • nanodegree
  • accepted by industry
• List of ML courses https://www.udacity.com/school-of-ai

12.4.1 Example for self-driving car course project

During the course there are a number of projects which have to be finished successfully before going to the next stage.

Example project:

Model predictive control:

• Drive car around track
• Combine
  • neural network
  • model predictive controller
• Including 100ms latency between actuation commands

The resulting driving performance can be seen in the following video

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