Here are some highlights about what has been going on in Duckietown lately.
Survey papers highlight Duckietown contributions to Autonomous Vehicles R&D
It's been a long journey since 2016, when at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology we decided to make the science and technology of robot autonomy accessible and fun by open-sourcing the first Duckiebot and Duckietown class.
“Towards Autonomous Driving with Small-Scale Cars: A Survey of Recent Development” by Dianzhao L., Paul Auerbach, and Ostap Okhrin, is a review paper that highlights the rapid development of the industry and the important contributions of small-scale car platforms to robot autonomy research.
We are glad to see that Duckietown contributed to a shift in the trend of published papers in the field of vehicle autonomy!
Learners gathered for a week in Boston for the 6th Annual MassRobotics Summer Drone Academy.
From soldering to flight and everything in between, students used the new Duckiedrone DD24 to improve their skills and learn more about robot autonomy.
Duckietown is being used all over the world in numerous research papers, such as "Transferring Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Policies for Autonomous Driving using Sim-to-Real" by Eduardo Candela, Leandro Parada, Luis Marques, Tiberiu Andrei Georgescu, Yiannis Demiris, Panagiotis Angeloudis from Imperial College London.
Go read the results of this and other projects by clicking on the link below.
Looking for project ideas to have students work on in your class?
We are collecting some of our favorite past student projects to provide you inspiration. Check out the available code, final reports, operation manuals, etc. below.
Let us know if you have projects to add to the list!
Take a look at the Duckietown Instructor Manual, which provides an overview of the Duckietown resources available for teaching, as well as tips and tricks to run a successful class.
