. The Master version of this course will be Vision for Autonomous Robots, so the rest of the development can be followed on this labbook.

May 8, 2024

Had a discussion with the TAs on last year assignments.
Most assignments were too easy, so that the students had to check if the answer was really that simple.
The exception was Assignment 2, which was more mathematical, and of the right level
Assignment 5 (EKF-localization) and Assignment 6 (EKF-SLAM) had a lot of overlap. Could be solved by using a slightly more advanced version of SLAM (for instance UKF-SLAM.
In a number of the assignments the tests were too easy (always the same speed for both wheels, baseline of 1, etc), so that mistakes only appeared at the end.
In assignments 5 the index of map and observations was swapped, which gave a lot of confusion.
The simulator is very dependent on configuration, so code that worked on one computer not always worked on another computer.
There were 3 TAs for 24 students, because they updated last years assignments.

May 7, 2024

The ConstructSim has now an educational package with 3 TortoiseBots and a WareHouse floormap: the BotBox Warehouse Lab kit.