Quarantine Bot

This is the start of the code for Quarantine Bot. Eventually, it will handle all of the movement and sensing control. At the moment, though, it only includes a utility for testing object detection.

For more information on the Quarantine Bot project, read my build log.

Hardware requirements

• Linux computer with root privileges (tested on Ubuntu 19.10 and Raspberry Pi 4)
• Intel RealSense camera. (We're using the D435.)
• Coral USB Accelerator (for object detection)

Installation

(Based on the instructions from Google)

Clone this repository:

git clone git@github.com:jtebert/quarantine-bot.git

Run the setup script:

cd quarantine-bot
./setup.sh

This script does three things:

• Install the Edge TPU runtime on the system (requires sudo)
• Install the Python dependencies
• Download the model data for object detection

Run

Right now, this does one thing: object detection, which will show you bounding boxes of a limited set of objects from the COCO dataset (provided by Google).

python qbot/object_detection/object_detection.py

To see the input argument options for this script, run:

python qbot/object_detection/object_detection.py --help