The Drake project was started by Russ Tedrake and the members of the Robot Locomotion Group at MIT and the Robotics Division at Toyota Research Institute. Many other people have since contributed their talents to help make Drake successful. Here’s an alphabetical list: (note to contributors: do add yourself)
- Alexandre Amice
- Andy Barry
- Alejandro Castro
- John Carter
- Mmanu Chaturvedi
- Thomas Cohn
- Rick Cory
- Eric Cousineau
- Sean Curtis
- Sam Creasey
- Hongkai Dai
- Jonathan DeCastro
- Robin Deits
- Evan Drumwright
- Maurice Fallon
- Ching-Hsin (Zach) Fang
- Siyuan Feng
- Moritz Fischer-Gundlach
- Liang Fok
- David German
- Lucy Gibson
- Grant Gould
- Zhaoyuan Gu
- Damrong Guoy
- Xuchen Han
- Kunimatsu Hashimoto
- Bill Hoffman
- Greg Izatt
- Brad King
- Twan Koolen
- Soonho Kong
- Scott Kuindersma
- Naveen Kuppuswamy
- Benoit Landry
- Dominic Liao-McPherson
- Lucas Manuelli
- Matt Marjanovic
- Pat Marion
- Joseph Masterjohn
- Dale McConachie
- Betsy McPhail
- Paul Mitiguy
- Jeremy Nimmer
- Mark Petersen
- Michael Posa
- Rick Poyner
- Ante Qu
- Michael Sherman
- Jamie Snape
- Russ Tedrake
- Belinda Teh
- Andres Valenzuela
- David von Wrangel
- Matthew Woehlke
- Huihua Zhao
Open source
Drake also relies on a wide variety of open-source libraries. We’d like to thank all of their maintainers, whose work is essential to Drake’s success:
- Developer tools:
- Documentation:
- File formats:
- Geometry:
- Graphics
- Networking:
- Optimization: