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Grateful to have wrapped up an incredible experience at IROS 2024 in Abu Dhabi! ?? During the conference, Chinmay Samak and I delivered a presentation on how F1Tenth Foundation and AutoDRIVE Ecosystem can come together to promote reproducibility and benchmarking in robotics research through competitions and digital twinning. Here's a glimpse of what we presented: ?? Presented an overview of F1TENTH and AutoDRIVE Ecosystem and highlighted their individual as well as combined capabilities. Stressed on the open-source nature, and availability of benchmarks, standards, scaffolded experiments, curated datasets, research and education material, software development kits, simulation tools, hardware testbeds, global competitions, detailed documentation and an international community – all ready to support #reproducibility and #benchmarking in robotics research. ?? Discussed the digital twinning of F1TENTH racecars and racetracks using AutoDRIVE Ecosystem, thereby bridging the gap between simulation and reality from both the ends (#real2sim and #sim2real). Described the F1TENTH Sim Racing framework developed using AutoDRIVE Ecosystem, highlighting how we leveraged the best practices like distributed computing, headless and graphical rendering paradigms, and Docker, Inc containerization for dependency management and workload isolation to yield reliable software reproducibility. ?? Highlighted the importance of #data in reproducibility and benchmarking, and demonstrated the framework’s capability to record and replay various data streams in a time-synchronized fashion along with the ability to automate data analysis and decision making. Presented in-depth analysis of race metrics (lap count and time, collision count, total and adjusted race time, best lap time, etc.) and vehicle KPIs (pose, twist, acceleration, wheel displacement, actuator feedbacks, LIDAR pointcloud, FPV camera frame, etc.) using Foxglove. But the adventure didn't quite end there! Chinmay Samak and I also had the incredible opportunity to serve as the race stewards and co-organize the 21st F1TENTH Autonomous Grand Prix. The event was a thrilling success where innovation and competition collided to push the boundaries of autonomous racing! ?? A heartfelt expression of gratitude to our advisor, Dr. Venkat N. Krovi for his continued support. We are truly grateful for the chance to be a part of such a dynamic community. We had the chance to connect with some of the greatest minds in the field from academia as well as industry, discuss our research and potential engagements. Thank you IROS 2024, for an unforgettable experience! ?? ARMLab CU-ICAR Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research Clemson Automotive Engineering Clemson University College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences Clemson University IEEE IEEE Robotics and Automation Society #IROS2024 #Robotics #AutonomousSystems #AI #DigitalTwins #AutoDRIVE #F1TENTH #Innovation #Research #PhD