- [Ryan] You're going to like this one!
- Being the defending champion, we feel like
we have to represent.
- See if I can give them a run for their money.
- [Ryan] All to dodge, can he do it?
- They do machine learning for a living.
I just started a week ago.
- [Ryan] All eyes on Tomasz
in his final run of the day.
Can he improve?
- What if I could actually win this?
- [Blaine] Welcome to the world's first
Autonomous Racing League!
Developers of every skill level
from all corners of the globe
compete for the ultimate prize in machine learning.
Welcome to DeepRacer TV.
(upbeat music)
- London's been around for two millennia,
but it's known today as much for innovation as history.
Ancient cathedrals and bridges
stand next to modern skyscrapers
and you can find old neighborhood pubs
and trendy fashion shops on the same street.
Last year, London announced plans to become
the most advanced wireless hotspot city
in the Western world.
And today, some of the brightest innovators in the region
have descended on the ExCeL Center for AWS DeepRacer London.
Who here will advance to AWS re:Invent 2019
for the DeepRacer Champion's Cup?
Developers have nine hours to register their fastest lap
and the clock starts now.
(lively electric music)
- This is DeepRacer League 2019 Autonomous Racing
thanks to AWS and Intel.
Thomasz, our first competitor, is already on the track.
- [Blaine] Each developer will have four minutes
to place their best times.
- [Ryan] It's off to a very good start.
- [Blaine] They need to complete
one full circuit around the track.
- [Ryan] He's picking up the pace here.
- [Blaine] With less than three faults
in order for their time to qualify.
- [Ryan] Two corners to go, oh!
- [Man In Jacket] That's good!
- [Ryan] Pretty impressive opening lap from Tomasz:
13.69 second lap.
- My name is Tomasz Ptak and I'm a Senior Software Engineer
at Open Market, a company that provides solutions
for companies that want to reach out to their customers
and want their customers to reach back to them.
I bake bread.
This is my hobby, we started baking bread at home
and I brought it to work and people liked it.
When I meet someone I bring a loaf of bread
and I just share.
Before the summit I spent four hours every night,
either training models or reading about this.
- [Blaine] What parameters did you choose to focus on?
- I used a way point, just calculated angles
between the mild turns and the sharper ones.
- [Blaine] If you really want to be successful
in a DeepRacer, you need to master way points.
Have you ever watched a bunch of ants
all coordinate together?
They don't run into each other,
they know how to move together in sync,
so it becomes almost like a dance.
(orchestral music)
That hive mentality, that's what you get
with the way points, it's this idea
the robots knowing where they want to go
based on the track ahead of them
and then mapping the best path to get them there.
- I am building an education platform for children.
So the idea is they don't end up just watching
boring YouTube videos of other kids playing video games.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We can try and find the right games,
the right videos to engage them and help them learn
and make parents feel less guilty in the process.
I'm Lyndon Leggate, I'm founder of Nino City.
The Chief Everything Officer right now,
the company's looking at screen time for kids,
trying to make it more educational, more worthwhile.
So a lot of my interests are in technology and tinkering.
My house is horrendously automated
and all sorts of gizmos which drives my wife crazy.
- [Robotic Voice] Alexa, turn the kettle on.
(electronic chiming)
- [Ryan] Right now on track is Lyndon
who has developed his own model.
- [Staff Member] Whenever you're ready
after it's finished loading the model, you can go.
Wow, aggressive, let's do this!
- [Ryan] Off to a strong start.
- Definitely my background is not in sports.
Anything that involves too much hand-eye coordination
and getting a ball into a net is not really my forte.
- Two quarters to go, hugging that outside white line.
Can he negotiate the final corner, yes!
A new fourth place on the board: 20.829 seconds,
which is the fourth developer to get under
30 seconds here so far today.
- A twin hit today would mean a free trip to Vegas.
I tell you my reason for entering, right?
The machine learning's just a side.
- The DeepRacer car is powered by the Intel Atom Processor
and it has the DeepLens camera at the front of the car.
Using those tools, they are driving autonomously
around this racetrack.
- Aww it's crock, it's fine.
- Charlie using a model that he has made.
- I'm Charlie, I'm an Associate Software Engineer
for Expedia.
I've just graduated from university.
I'm interested in AI,
and outside of work I did some improv comedy.
Improv and writing code are obviously
very different disciplines.
I think you don't write code in the back,
you always work as a team and working with people
and those team skills come into play a lot
in my day to day life.
I was surprised when I saw the track
at how much it looked like the little video stream
you get when you're training your virtual models.
Part of the point of coming here
was to actually get to play around with one of the real cars
and try out our virtual models in reality.
There's a group of people coming here
who seems to be fairly serious about this.
We'll see if I can give them a run for their money.
(car whirling)
- [Ryan] This is off to a promising start.
Look at that speed coming around!
This is looking awfully promising.
So a round of applause for Charlie, new number one.
12.729 seconds, the aggression paid off.
- I didn't think I was the best person
and then I saw myself up there on the leaderboard
and (chuckles) I kind of want to win it.
- [Ryan] We've got Raul coming up next.
What kind of times have you been able
to do in the simulator?
- I think it's like nine to 10 seconds.
- [Ryan] Okay.
- I'm Raul, I'm from Spain,
and I work in a company called Cloudreach.
- We started working on the DeepRacer one month ago
with Amy, a colleague of mine from my work.
She's been doing the complex calculations,
some of the angles and the steering and all those things.
I'm here basically for the jacket, that's what I want.
- [Ryan] First lap is four minutes to turn it
into the fastest lap that he can.
- In the beginning I had to get comfortable
with the controls.
- [Ryan] Found a significant amount of pace!
The car is just hugging that white line.
- [Staff Member] Ooh, hugging again, nice!
- [Ryan] Look how consistent this model is too.
- [Staff Member] Well done!
- [Ryan] There it is, new number one Raul!
A 10.507!
- I was shaking, I was so nervous!
- [Ryan] Lyndon on the track now,
his four minutes are underway and he's gotten better!
Needs a good lap, there's no doubt: 9.544 seconds.
- Lyndon, 9.544!
Is this your last race today
or are you going to try one more time?
- I'm going to keep an eye on the board,
if I get bumped off I'm certainly going to give it another go.
- [Ryan] Our number two developer
is on track right now, Raul.
- I had just beaten him by a second.
I heard he was going to go for another lap.
- [Ryan] How about this lap?
- He did a very good time and I didn't know
if I was going to be able to beat it.
- [Ryan] One more quarter to go.
This is going to be a good lap.
9.016 seconds for Raul, provisionally our new number one!
- I got my first position back, so I was pretty happy, yeah.
- [Ryan] Going from second to first,
just barely faster than Lyndon.
- When I increased the learning rate up to .4 and ran it
with quite nice bench size. - Okay.
- Jigsaw XYZ, right?
- Yup, Matt. - Tony, how's it going?
- Doing good.
Jigsaw XYZ, now if that name doesn't mean anything to you,
it's because you didn't know
about the championship in 2018
at last year's re:Invent.
Where's Rick?
- Unfortunately he had some customer commitments
that meant he couldn't attend.
- The winner, Rick Fish, is from Jigsaw XYZ.
- He sent us along instead.
My name is Matt Camp.
I'm the Infrastructure Lead at Jigsaw XYZ.
We're a little software development fintech start up.
- My name's Tony, I work for Jigsaw XYZ.
I'm one of our engineers.
I've known Matt for about 20 years now.
He was the Best Man at my wedding.
- I would like to think I gave a good speech
at his wedding, but I was under some pretty strict
instructions from his mother.
- Could have been a lot worse.
Matt knows where all the dead bodies are. (laughs)
- [Matt] We attended re:Invent 2018.
- [Announcer] Across the line, 51.5!
- And on that team Rick Fish went on stage
and actually ended up winning.
- [Crowd] Yay!
- We had five cars and we had the full track
printed out as well, which had been quite helpful.
Winning would be huge for Jigsaw,
with Rick being the defending champion.
We feel like we kind of have to represent.
- What's a winning strategy?
- You don't need to steer that much, go for maximum speed.
- Yeah. - Okay.
- The summit series track doesn't have very tight corners.
You don't need to explore all the action space.
- Small action space means easier to train.
- Absolutely, yup. - Yup.
- Action space are the amount of choices a car has,
given the circumstances in front of it.
The camera sees a corner is happening, what can it do?
It can speed up, it can slow down,
it can turn left, it can turn right,
it can keep it's wheels forward.
All of those choices becomes the action space.
If you give it a lot of choices,
then you might be able to get the best time
and the best time around the curve,
but a lot of choices means an awful lot of training
and you might not reach convergence.
- [Ryan] Our fourth place developer, Matt C.
is back out on track here for the second time.
Matt's company was represented when we debuted
this DeepRacer product back at re:Invent last year.
- Before DeepRacer I hadn't done a whole lot
of this machine learning, but we have done a few projects
in the Intel OpenVINO platform.
- [Ryan] And that one was a good lap, .447 seconds.
Good enough for second!
That's how tight the top three are.
- When Rick Fish won in 2018, he won in 51 seconds.
(old-time piano music)
51 seconds was really impressive back then.
It's a whole new world right now.
- [Ryan] About 90 minutes left here today.
Raul still holding the top position.
We know Tomasz is fast, we saw him earlier today.
Can he improve?
- As I get into the queue, I'm already tense.
I could see the guys who were at the top three
and they were already under 10 seconds at that time.
They do machine learning for a living,
I just started a week ago.
- Go ahead. - So want a little bit
of speed here.
- There's always this little thoughts somewhere inside
I think, what if I could actually win this?
- [Ryan] Can he improve in his final run of the day?
- And it's like, no, no, no, no,
no, no, my model's rubbish.
- [Ryan] Time's starting to run out.
Just one hour remaining.
Raul, Matt C., Tony J. they're your top three
at the moment.
- Las Vegas would be very exciting, I've not been.
- [Ryan] Can he get faster?
One final lap here for Charlie.
Two more corners to go,
it's been a good lap so far, let's see.
It does not improve: 11.183 seconds.
So Raul dodges another bullet.
- So we've got like 40 minutes left, it'll be all right.
- [Ryan] It's coming down to crunch time here in London.
Can anyone do anything with Raul's time: 9.016 seconds?
- Raul, you are still sitting at number one.
You chose not to race again.
You are just sitting on that time.
- I did my best, so we'll see what happens.
- All the top people where there, in the queue to go.
- Any single one of us was capable of winning it
just because the times were so tight.
- [Ryan] Lyndon is up next.
- Lyndon was in front of us
so we were all watching him very carefully.
- Hey they are best, crazy not to race again.
- [Ryan] A solid start to the lap here for Lyndon.
- I was really worried that Lyndon was going to bump us off.
Raul hadn't turned up for a late run,
so if we could stay ahead of Lyndon we had a chance.
- Kind of a bit of a nail-biter
because he definitely had a lot of speed in his car.
- If the model keeps on the track,
then the rest of it is in your hands.
- [Ryan] As Lyndon have one rapid lap remaining.
And it looks like the battery has expired
so a premature end to the run for Lyndon, unfortunately.
- But it is frustrating, it's so close.
I'm hoping today I'll stay in the top 10
so I will at least win a car,
and then I'm going to convince my wife to let me build a track
in the house, which we'll see how that goes. (laughs)
- [Ryan] Just about 25 minutes remaining.
Two really solid bullets in the gun for Raul to dodge.
Can he do it?
- We were chasing Raul for pretty much all of the day.
- [Ryan] Tony J., who is in 3rd at the moment
will be the next to go.
- For my last run, I went ahead of Matt.
We really wanted to take the trophy out to re:Invent again
just to really prove that Jigsaw is a serious competitor.
- [Ryan] Off to a clean start.
Can he get through this corner cleanly?
Yes he can! - Yes, yes, yes.
- One corner to go!
- And the nerves were going really quite stressful.
- That is good. - First lap a solid one:
12.7 seconds.
- I'm blanking out, as much as possible,
all the outside kind of interference
and just really focus on the controls.
- [Ryan] Second lap: 15 seconds.
- I gave it my best shot.
- [Ryan] Another 13 second lap, that's three in a row.
Consistency is good, just needs to find
a little bit more pace.
- I came really quite close.
- [Ryan] 10.407 seconds!
- Oh.
- Still not as good as what we've seen
from his model earlier today.
- I wasn't able to beat my first run's time, unfortunately.
- [Ryan] Valiant effort, a round of applause!
Still 3rd place.
We'll see him on the podium in just a few minutes.
And now he can pass along what he's learned
to his friend and his colleague, Matt C.
- It's totally up to Matt now.
- [Ryan] He is second as it stands.
He's going to give it one more try.
- Pretty intense, especially with the commentator
and everybody watching.
- [Ryan] Four minutes to set his fastest lap.
Can he improve?
- Matt's last lap attempt was really stressful.
- [Ryan] We're waiting for a complete lap still.
- I went off the track a lot.
- [Ryan] They'll give him a reset here
and he'll begin again.
- At low speeds it actually seems to go off the track
so I just kept cranking that throttle up.
- [Ryan] He's picking up the pace here.
- And you could just see the car kind of just getting
a little bit quicker and quicker each time around.
- [Ryan] Oh, this is getting really close here
at the final moments.
- I kept hearing that I was so close.
- [Ryan] He's about a 10th of a second off of Raul's time.
- I felt like, yeah one good lap and I could get it.
- When he followed the racing line around the entire track
which was really cool to see.
- [Ryan] How about this time?
You're going to like this one.
- I heard him say, "Oh you're going to like this."
- [Ryan] 8.917!
- And I realized, oh God, I've won it! (laughs)
- [Ryan] There it is! (crowd applauds)
New number one, Matt C!
- And it was absolutely awesome.
- [Ryan] 8.917 seconds.
- Matt's on top, I'm number three,
and then the last competitor was next to us.
- [Ryan] We've got Tomasz about to go.
- I just decided to give it one more go.
- [Staff Member] You know what to do,
so whenever you're ready.
- If I just get like one second out of it,
this would be just awesome.
But yeah, everyone tried to nick one second
off theirs, right?
- [Ryan] All eyes on Tomasz.
Can he find little bit of extra speed?
- The car gets going and it gets off the road,
again off the road.
And so I asked just to get back on the start line
and have another go from scratch
because if it falls out then I don't really have
much chances to get it to improve.
- [Ryan] Tomasz will a couple of very strong laps.
- And this time I've managed to do like,
two consecutive laps without any help
and they were fast, faster than I expected.
- [Ryan] Look at this, he might be on the podium.
9.170, he moved from 10th to third in the final moment.
- And it just shocked me.
- [Ryan] Time has run out over here.
- Tomasz has set a time which has knocked Tony
off the podium, so there was the definite
moment of looking up at the screen
and going, ahh.
- He just passed me on his last lap.
It was galling, but that's a shame we couldn't have
two of us on the podium, but I'm glad one of us made it.
- Finishing in third today, Tomasz Ptak!
- This was something out of my comfort zone.
I just kept going and kept trying and kept pushing.
I haven't competed in a long time.
I guess I just forgot how to give up.
- It's a very good lesson to learn.
Well done, congratulations, third place today!
- Finishing in second and he was on top
for most of the day, Raul Herranz.
- I came here only for the jacket, which I got,
so I'm pretty happy, yeah.
- Is there something you think you could
improve on if you went again?
- Of course, we can always improve upon again.
- It's a good outlook as well.
- Just go for it, come here, participate,
and try to have fun and maybe
you are surprised, and you get something.
- Please welcome your champion,
with a time of 8.917 seconds, Matt Camp!
(people applauding)
- We've got a lot of work ahead of us now.
I can't just sit back and hope that 8.9 seconds
is going to be good enough.
- Congratulations, your champion: Matt Camp.
- So I know there's a lot of people
coming from all over the world to re:Invent.
You guys are going to have to go really fast
to beat the London crowd.
(upbeat music)
- And that wraps us up.
For AWS DeepRacer London, as Matt from Jigsaw XYZ
takes home the cup and advances to AWS re:Invent 2019
to compete for the Champion's Cup.
We invite you to participate by coming to any of our
upcoming summits or participate in the virtual league.
Next up, AWS DeepRacer Tokyo.