We’re excited to build and fly drones with you. You will work with a small team of students to build and program a small quadcopter. We will provide team with their own robot for the duration of the course. The course will cover PID controllers for stable flight, localization with a camera, mapping, and autonomous planning. At the end of the course, the aim is for students to understand the basic concepts of a mobile robot and aerial vehicle.
The class is taught by Professor Stefanie Tellex and the rest of the course staff.
In the age of AI human-human interaction is more important than ever.
Therefore, attendance is required in person on
Tuesday and Thursday 10:30am-11:50am in the Science Library 8th floor
lab space. Course activities will include online video lectures, in-person facilitated discussion groups, oral checkoffs, and office hours for open discussion and questions.
Note that the first two weeks of classes will be held in CIT 115.
The SciLi 8th floor lab space requires card access.
Course discussion and announcements happen on the course Slack. Please ask all technical questions questions about course material in the public channels there so that others can benefit from the answers. If you have a question, probably other students have it as well!
Low-level technical problems with the Duckietown stack should be addressed with them on the Duckietown slack. (e.g., Duckietown shell, Duckie matrix running on your specific OS.)
The class textbook can be found online at The Duckiedrone Operation Manual.
The class schedule contains video lectures, assignments, and projects organized based on due dates. This is the main page for what happens when with the class.
For those taking the class at Brown, as well as our high school collaborators, we will provide a drone kit using funds donated by Amazon Robotics. Anyone can buy the drone kit online here.
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