day_5_jul19

• Started working on the Duckietown developer manual.
  – Worked through the docker setup, and the DT project template clone.

day_4_jul18

Today was the day of the science symposium. Everything went well. We borrowed the duckietown mat that was set up by an alumnus, Jasna, and used that to present our lane-following duckiebots.

day_3_jul17

Goals For Today:

1. Work on the developer manual
2. Edx course
3. Start reading the paper for review next Monday

Progress:

• Set up software and hardware for the Science Symposium on July 18.

Next Steps:

day_2_jul16

Summary of External Links:

1. Error Documentation
2. Stack Overflow post on duckietown learning challenges submission

Goals For Today:

1. Work on edx course

Progress:

• Completed the lane following demo in Heather’s lab.
  [What went well]
  We were able get leafduck and skyduck to do lane-following in Professor Heather’s lab where there is already an duckietown environment set up. The duckiebot can lane-follow only when the yellow mark on its left. There were a few times that the bots went off course, but most of the time they were able to stay on the lane.
• Working on Brateinberg Challenge from duckietown learning experiences
  – [what went well]
  I was able to open up the dts code editor, and then I was able work on all three notebooks in the online vscode. They were computer vision and object detection related exercises. They were about manipulating images and adding RGB/HSV filters to images so that duckies can be detected. The last notebook was the most challenging. I had a hard time understanding what the task was and what I had to do. It was basically asking us to create a matrix that will be part of an equation that determines whether the left and right wheels should go forward or backwards (or at least this is how I understood it).
  Then, after running into more bugs, I was finally able to do a dts code workbench --sim after updating my duckietown token in my terminal to a dt1 version (it is currently a dt2 version) and logging into docker again and re-running docker run hello-world to confirm.
  I saw the simulation but I am not sure if it should be a static view. I don’t think it should be but I am not sure if that is because of my code or because the simulation was not working properly
  [What did not go well]
  I ran into errors when I tried to do dts code evaluate and dts code submit . Ellen also had the same type of error when she was trying to submit the very first challenge. I looked through stack overflow and found one similar question back in 2023. The reply was that the server was down. It could be the same issue. I posted one more question on it anyways. link to my post
  I have also documented it here.

next steps:

day_1_jul15

Goals For today:

1. work on edx course
2. lane following demo in heather’s lab
3. work on duckietown developer manual

Progress:

• We did a paper review check-in
  Reflections on the check-in:
  1. We discussed the summary, the strengths and the weaknesses of each paper. We did spend a lot more time on the check-in then it should be. We had a lot of questions, and that helped me learn more about what was happening in the robotics motion planning field and what basic knowledge we should have about it. For example, I was introduced to common problems in the robotics motion planning field such as the coverage problem.

Next Steps and Reflection:

–> did not end up working on all the goals today.