Custom Edge TPU SSDMobileNet for Shooting Toy Reindeer with DIY 3D Printed Robot

What if your DIY robot could leverage a custom built object detector model to accomplish tasks such as playing fetch or shooting a specific object?

Table of Contents (TOC)

1. Purpose
2. Background
3. Materials & Methods
4. Results & Conclusions
5. References

1. Purpose

The purpose of this article is to create a custom object detector tflite model on my toy reindeer, by applying transfer learning. Transfer learning is applied to a state of the art object detector, SSD MobileNet V2 FPNLite.³ The trained model should provide reasonable precision and recall when deployed to a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with Coral USB Accelerator for Edge TPU inference.¹⁵

Training Notebook

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/stevensmiley1989/MrRobot/blob/main/Jupyter%20Notebooks/augmented_ssd_MobileNet_v2_FPNLite_320x320_5_8_2021_reindeer.ipynb

Evaluation Notebook