I just got my BS and graduated and can't even find a job without 1-3 years of experience. It is ridiculous. I have a very impressive resumé from the education side, but no one will touch you without experience. A PhD will compensate for some of it, but they still demand technologies not taught. I don't regret doing CS, I love this stuff to death. But its hella hard to get an entry level job in this field (although there are mountains of experienced jobs, what gives?).
-James
Sorry, I'm a little pissed at them and forgot to actually give any details. What they used was a knee-jerk reaction type technology. They use a couple of low-tech sonar units (kind of like what we used in high school physics) and have the car randomly turn left or right when that happens. There is a basic "global path planning" that follows GPS waypoints, but it isn't as reliable as luck.
We were hoping to get the bumblebee for this competition, but the team in all its wisdom decided that the order of buying things is sensors->more sensors->less expensive sensors->gps->sensors->cameras->COMPUTERS!
If you guys want, I do have a slightly old version of the OSU WAVE team's AI.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkrpathplanner/
-James
Hey all. I'm in charge of the actual pathplanner software for the OSU WAVE team. All of you should probably know that this whole DARPA thing is a joke. They don't want people to succeed. MIT, Princton, and even Ford didn't make it, but somehow my school did. Don't get me wrong, our software is freakin' amazing, but it was never used. The dumbest technology known to man that got lucky and passed 1/3 of the site visit tests got us through.
I'm happy to be a part of this whole thing, but this whole thing is weird.
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I just got my BS and graduated and can't even find a job without 1-3 years of experience. It is ridiculous. I have a very impressive resumé from the education side, but no one will touch you without experience. A PhD will compensate for some of it, but they still demand technologies not taught. I don't regret doing CS, I love this stuff to death. But its hella hard to get an entry level job in this field (although there are mountains of experienced jobs, what gives?). -James
Sorry, I'm a little pissed at them and forgot to actually give any details. What they used was a knee-jerk reaction type technology. They use a couple of low-tech sonar units (kind of like what we used in high school physics) and have the car randomly turn left or right when that happens. There is a basic "global path planning" that follows GPS waypoints, but it isn't as reliable as luck.
We were hoping to get the bumblebee for this competition, but the team in all its wisdom decided that the order of buying things is sensors->more sensors->less expensive sensors->gps->sensors->cameras->COMPUTERS! If you guys want, I do have a slightly old version of the OSU WAVE team's AI. https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkrpathplanner/ -James
The OSU WAVE team is using a combination of Linux and FreeBSD boxes. -James
Hey all. I'm in charge of the actual pathplanner software for the OSU WAVE team. All of you should probably know that this whole DARPA thing is a joke. They don't want people to succeed. MIT, Princton, and even Ford didn't make it, but somehow my school did. Don't get me wrong, our software is freakin' amazing, but it was never used. The dumbest technology known to man that got lucky and passed 1/3 of the site visit tests got us through. I'm happy to be a part of this whole thing, but this whole thing is weird.