Draft:Duckietown

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Duckietown, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2020
Founders
  • Jacopo Tani
  • Andrea Censi
  • Liam Paull
Headquarters55 Court St., Floor 2,
Boston, Massachusetts
,
United States
Key people
  • Jacopo Tani (CEO)
  • Andrea F. Daniele (CTO)
Products
  • Duckiebots
  • Duckietown
  • Duckiedrones
Services
  • Classroom management
  • Course building
  • Talent matching
Websiteduckietown.com

Duckietown[edit]

Duckietown (Boston, Massachusetts)is a robotics and AI technology company focused on teaching and research[1] autonomous mobile robotics.[2][3] It is a spin-​​off of ETH Zurich, an academic organization, and originated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[4]

History[edit]

Duckietown started as a class at MIT in 2016[5][6] for the master students of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as a hands-on learning experience with the goal to "create a fleet of fifty self-driving taxis that can navigate the roads of a model city with just a single on-board camera and no pre-programmed maps"[7] using off-the-shelf components and open-source software tools. A documentary (the "Duckumentary") was made from the first course.[8]

In 2018 the Duckietown platform seeded the first edition of the AI Driving Olympics [9][10][11][12]: an international competition for benchmarking the state of the art of embodied AI for self-driving cars.[13] The event was held at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NeurIPS).[14] Final events of following iterations of the AI-DO took place at NeurIPS and at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).[15]

In 2019 a Kickstarter was run to standardize the hardware component of the platform and make it available worldwide[16][17] to make the platform more accessible and support the early-growth of the community.[18][19] In the same year, Duckiebots[20] were featured in the Science Museum of London's "Driverless" exhibition. [21][22]

In 2020, the Duckietown platform was used in the "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown" massive open online course (MOOC)[23], hosted on the EdX platform.[24]

Recognition[edit]

In 2021 and 2022 the Duckietown platform was nominated as a finalist in the EdTech awards [25] in the following categories: higher education solution, robotics (for learning) solution, product or service setting a trend [26], and online courses / MOOCs solution [27].

References[edit]

  1. ^ Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Ahn, Heejin; Alonso-Mora, Javier; Carlone, Luca; Cap, Michal; Chen, Yu Fan; Choi, Changhyun; Dusek, Jeff; Fang, Yajun; Hoehener, Daniel; Liu, Shih-Yuan; Novitzky, Michael; Okuyama, Igor Franzoni; Pazis, Jason (May 2017). "Duckietown: An open, inexpensive and flexible platform for autonomy education and research". 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). pp. 1497–1504. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2017.7989179. ISBN 978-1-5090-4633-1. S2CID 7910911.
  2. ^ Tani, Jacopo; Paull, Liam; Zuber, Maria T.; Rus, Daniela; How, Jonathan; Leonard, John; Censi, Andrea (2017). "Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy". In Alimisis, Dimitris; Moro, Michele; Menegatti, Emanuele (eds.). Educational Robotics in the Makers Era. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Vol. 560. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 104–121. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55553-9_8. hdl:1721.1/111059. ISBN 978-3-319-55553-9. S2CID 7657201.
  3. ^ Tani, Jacopo; Daniele, Andrea F.; Bernasconi, Gianmarco; Camus, Amaury; Petrov, Aleksandar; Courchesne, Anthony; Mehta, Bhairav; Suri, Rohit; Zaluska, Tomasz; Walter, Matthew R.; Frazzoli, Emilio; Paull, Liam; Censi, Andrea (October 2020). "Integrated Benchmarking and Design for Reproducible and Accessible Evaluation of Robotic Agents". 2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). pp. 6229–6236. arXiv:2009.04362. doi:10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9341677. ISBN 978-1-7281-6212-6. S2CID 221337318.
  4. ^ "List of ETH spin-offs". ethz.ch. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
  5. ^ Jan Kamps, Haje (April 20, 2016). "MIT explains self-driving cars with rubber duckies". Techcrunch. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  6. ^ Hiles, Catherine (April 21, 2016). "MIT Teaches Students About Autonomous Cars Using Rubber Ducks". The Newswheel. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  7. ^ Conner-Simons, Adam (April 20, 2016). "Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  8. ^ Duckietown (2017-08-30). The Duckumentary - the first edition of Duckietown (at MIT, in 2016). Retrieved 2024-05-16 – via Vimeo.
  9. ^ "The Duckietown Foundation Announces the AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO)". PRWeb. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  10. ^ Walther, Michael (2018-11-09). "AI Behind the Wheel in Duckietown". Electrical Engineering News and Products. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  11. ^ svizzera, RSINews, l’informazione della Radiotelevisione. "La gara dei mini-taxi autonomi". rsi (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-02-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Si scaldano i motori per le Olimpiadi delle auto autonome - Scienza & Tecnica". ANSA.it (in Italian). 2018-11-04. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  13. ^ "NeurIPS 2021". neurips.cc. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  14. ^ "Duckietown, le Olimpiadi della guida autonoma con le paperelle - VIDEO". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 2018-11-07. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  15. ^ Censi, Andrea; Paull, Liam; Tani, Jacopo; Walter, Matthew R. (2019). "The AI Driving Olympics: An Accessible Robot Learning Benchmark". 33rd Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2019), Vancouver, Canada. doi:10.3929/ethz-b-000464062 – via ETH Zurich Research Collection.
  16. ^ "Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown - auto-mat.ch". www.auto-mat.ch (in German). Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  17. ^ "Learn About Self-Driving Vehicles and AI with Duckietown". Hackster.io. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  18. ^ "Learn to Program Self-Driving Cars (and Help Duckies Commute) With Duckietown - IEEE Spectrum". spectrum.ieee.org. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  19. ^ Lobo, Savia (2018-08-22). "MIT's Duckietown project on Kickstarter for self-driving cars". Packt Hub. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  20. ^ "What is a Duckiebot?". GovTech. 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  21. ^ "The Science Museum explores a future driven by autonomous vehicles". Science Museum. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  22. ^ "Europe gets tougher on tech". Financial Times. 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  23. ^ "Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". edX. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  24. ^ "ETHx: Self-Driving Cars with Duckietown". edX. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  25. ^ "The EdTech Awards". EdTech Digest. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  26. ^ "2021 Finalists & Winners". EdTech Digest. Retrieved 2023-02-01.
  27. ^ www.edtechdigest.com https://www.edtechdigest.com/2022-finalists-winners/. Retrieved 2023-02-01. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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