downingbots/ALSET

ALSET is a hobbyist-level educational project that is effectively a 'time capsule' from the 2018-2019 era of edge AI. With only 12 stars and zero activity (velocity) over a span of 5.5 years (2022 days), it lacks any meaningful community traction or maintenance. It relies on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano, which, while still used, has been superseded by more powerful Orin modules and more robust software ecosystems like NVIDIA Isaac or the Donkey Car project. From a competitive standpoint, it offers no moat; the approach (DQN on a toy car) is a standard graduate-level robotics project. It faces high platform domination risk because NVIDIA itself provides far superior, better-documented, and more performant reference designs (JetBot, JetRacer) that solve the exact same problem. The displacement horizon is '6 months' only because the project is already technically obsolete compared to modern ROS2-based or simulation-to-real (Sim2Real) reinforcement learning workflows.