December 5, 2023

• Yue complained about an 1.8 degree rotation error in Carla. Found this forum discussion, which indicates that rotation errors are possible due to internal processing by unreal. Yet, the reported errors are even larger than 1.5 degrees, and were reported for the Python-API.
• So, Yue is still working to get Carla SUMO co-simulation working, including NPC vehicles.

November 29, 2023

• This IEEE RA magazine article compares a number of laser scanners with radar. Actually, the VDL-16 performs quite well both for detection and mapping.
• The Autonomous Driving 2024 challenges is gone from OpenDriveLab. Yet, the 2023 Challenge is still there.

November 14, 2023

• Yue Cao publishes his experiences in a blog.

October 13, 2023

• It would be interesting to use Wayve's GAIA-1 for generating training-data for the Autonomous Driving challenge.

September 13, 2023

• Looking for a good Msc-thesis project. There will be an Autonomous Driving Challenge in 2024, but details still have to be reveiled.
• The details of the 2023 competition have to be found at Wayback machine.
• The details of the tracks themselves are still online, including the papers of the participating teams. Nvidia is the lab to be beaten. Their paper, which describes a method with contains two view transformations: List-Splat-Shoot for forward projection and BEVFormer for backward projection.
• The nuPlan challenge (ADC 2023 track #4) is closer to Cao's research interests.
• The winner of this challenge has a paper with code

May 30, 2023

• An interesting experimentation platform is DeepRacer from Amazon Science. Comparible with DuckieTown and Robotarium, with a 1/18th scale car.

May 22, 2023

• The Pedestrian Recognition Challenge is interesting, although the deadline is rather short (June 30, 2023)

May 9, 2023

• Should try to reproduce the error in Waymo Pose estimation challenge tutorial. The versions of the perception dataset are described in more detail on this page

April 11, 2023

• A good overview paper on Autonomous Racing is Autonomous Vehicles on the Edge (June 2022).
• A dataset on cones used as obstacles can be found at the FSOCO dataset. This consists of both images and segmentation, no RGBD or laser-scans.

April 3, 2023

• Juraj Peršić recommended a PiJuice HAT instead of a Powerbank, to have more stable results for the Raspberri Pi.
• There are multiple versions: portable, solar.
• The range is including a github page with the pijuice-gui.

March 21, 2023

• The v2 tutorial for the Perception dataset of the 2023 Pose Estimation challenge is here.

March 14, 2023

• Looked this autonomous racing lecture on the use of transformation frames in ROS (slide 54-). Like the drawing on slide 60 (with base_footprint used by hector_slam)
• Note (page 70) that a tf.TransformListener can receive cache transformation (with getLatestCommonTime?)

March 13, 2023

• At the TUE there will be a LiDaR olympics, which several challenges.

February 14, 2023

• At CVPR in June, there will be a End-to-End Autonomous Driving workshop, with 4 challenges.
• At first sight, the 3D Occupancy Prediction caught my interest.
• The dataset will be released tomorrow at github.

January 16, 2023

• A new Arxiv paper on optical flow for a fish-eye camera under low-light conditions.

January 13, 2023

• Jasper found this UvA Msc-thesis, which was able to create BEV from CARLA images.

January 9, 2023

• Reproducing the error in duckietown simulation
• Three containers were started, but two were crashing because the host fakebot was not correctly set, which resulted that even when you did docker exec -ti CONTAINER_ID bash you are kicked out after 10s.
• One container contains the example code, which doesn't crash. Set the host and ROS_ definitions all to 127.0.0.1, which allows at least to start a roscore in this container.

Previous Labbooks

• Labbook 2022.
• Labbook 2021.
• Labbook 2020.
• Labbook 2019.