Research using Duckietown
Vision
We designed Duckietown to be a modular, inexpensive research platform for studying autonomy in complex systems. Think of it as an “experimental simulator”.
Value proposition
We provide a baseline implementation for you to be able to rapidly and easily test your algorithms on real physical hardware.
- Convenience: You can only change the part that interests you and use the rest of the baselines to have a fully functional system.
- Reproducibility: Your research has a high impact since it uses a standard platform that others can easily replicate. For maximum impact, compete in an AI Driving Olympics (AI-DO).
Tools for research
- Imitation learning template
- Reinforcement learning template
- Database of Duckiebot driving logs
- Duckiebot driving simulator
- Modularized code (ROS baseline template)
- Low cost, standardized robots and smart city environment
- An international embodied AI competition: the Artificial Intelligence Driving Olympics (AI-DO)
Current users
Please tell us about your research with Duckietown so that we can include it in the list.
Next steps
- Check out the documentation in the Duckiebook
- Start testing or training your algorithms with our templates, logs, simulator
- Get the hardware