Lecture Slides and Recordings

This section contains a compilation of lecture slides and recordings, representative of the content that can be taught with Duckietown.

For access to the editable Keynote or PowerPoint slides, please send us a message on the Duckietown Instructor Slack or at class-in-a-box@duckietown.com, with your institutional email.

Materials are currently available in the following subject areas:

• Introductions to Duckietown
  • Getting started
  • Autonomy and Automation
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Robots
  • Architectures in Robotics
  • Testing
  • Signal Processing
  • Networking
  • Full Introductory Lectures
• Tools
  • Containerization
  • Middlewares and the Robot Operating System (ROS)
  • Git
• Modeling
  • Robot Representations
  • Modeling a Differential Drive Robot
  • Full Lecture on Modeling
• Control Systems
  • Introduction to Control Systems
  • Odometry
  • PID Control
  • Full Lecture on Control
• Computer Vision
  • Projective Geometry
  • Camera Calibration
  • Image Filtering
  • Full Lectures on Computer Vision
• Visual Perception
  • Introduction to Visual Perception
  • Introduction to Neural Networks
  • Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Object Detection
  • Full Lectures on Visual Perception
• State Estimation
  • Probabilistic Representations
  • Bayes Filter
  • Kalman Filter
  • Particle Filter
  • Histogram Filter
  • Full Lecture on Filtering
  • Robust Estimation
  • Full Lecture on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
• Planning
  • Motion Planning
  • Planning on Graphs
  • Sampling-based Planning
  • Full Lecture on Planning
• End-to-End Learning Approaches
  • Markov Decision Processes
  • Policy Iteration
  • Q Learning
  • Simulation and Sim-to-real
  • Full Lecture on Reinforcement Learning
  • Imitation Learning
• Advanced Topics
  • Multi-vehicle Planning
  • Safety
  • Estimating Uncertainty
  • Estimation from Motion Blur

If you would like to recommend a specific topic for new materials, do not hesitate to let us know by reaching out, or start building a Duckietown learning experience yourself.