Daniel Brintzinger
From Code to Motion: Building an Autonomous Hat-Hunting Robot with Kubernetes & ML
#1about 3 minutes
Understanding the challenges of edge computing deployments
DevOps principles can be extended from the data center to manage workloads on disconnected or intermittently connected edge devices.
#2about 2 minutes
Introducing the robot's hardware and software stack
The robot is built on a Raspberry Pi running MicroShift, a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, and exposes a simple Flask REST API for motion control.
#3about 4 minutes
Designing the end-to-end system architecture
The system uses a central OpenShift cluster for development and model training, with Skupper for secure communication and ArgoCD for GitOps-based deployment to the robot.
#4about 7 minutes
Training an object detection model with OpenShift AI
A JupyterLab workbench is used to define and run an Elyra pipeline that trains a YOLOv5 model on the Open Images dataset to recognize fedora hats.
#5about 4 minutes
Deploying the trained model as an inference service
The trained ONNX model is deployed as a scalable and secure REST API endpoint using the model serving feature in OpenShift AI.
#6about 7 minutes
Developing the robot control application in a web IDE
A Python Flask application is developed using a web-based IDE (Eclipse Che) with a devfile to manage the workspace and connect to the inference service.
#7about 2 minutes
Live demonstration of the autonomous hat-hunting robot
The robot successfully uses its camera and the ML model to detect a red hat, calculate its position, and navigate towards it in real-time.
#8about 1 minute
Managing edge deployments with GitOps using ArgoCD
ArgoCD manages the robot as a remote Kubernetes cluster, enabling automated, Git-driven rollouts of new application and model versions to the edge device.
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