Robot components, robotic paradigms, mobile robots, task planning, sensing, sensor fusion, basic control concepts. This course satisfies the writing requirement.
Prerequisite: CSC 210
Instructor: Karen T. Sutherland
Office: Sverdrup 203E // Lab: Sverdrup 7
Email: suther@navigation.augsburg.edu
Phone: 612-330-1341
Office Hours: T, Th: 16:45 - 18:00 or by appt. (Held in Sverdrup 7)
Text: Maja Mataric, The Robotics Primer, MIT Press, 2007.
Requirements:
| Midterm exam: | 100 pts | Final exam: | 200 pts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects: | 100 pts | Homework: | 100 pts |
Assignments are to be emailed to your instructor when due. Late assignments will be accepted up to the next class meeting with a 20% penalty. There will be a major team-based robot project. Each team will keep a journal of robot project progress and will create an html document to be incorporated into a class Web page. These html documents will be written in simple html using ASCII text. User documentation and detailed documentation will also be a part of this project. A passing grade on the project is required in order to pass the course.
| Week | Topics | Chapter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1/15 - 1/17 | Introduction to Robotics | 1 - 3 |
| 1/22 | Metropolis Film | |
| 1/24 | Mindstorm Lab | |
| 1/29 | Basics | 4 |
| 1/31 | Flatland Film | |
| 2/5 - 2/7 | Movement | 5 - 7 |
| 2/12 - 2/14 | Sensing | 8, 9 |
| 2/19 - 2/21 | Control | 10, 11 |
| 2/26 - 2/28 | Representation and Planning | 12, 13 |
| 3/4 | Midterm Exam | |
| 3/6 | Subsumption Architecture | 14 |
| 3/11 | Thinking and Acting | 15 |
| 3/13 | DARPA Grand challenge Video | 3/18 - 3/20 | Spring Break - No class |
| 3/25 - 3/27 | Navigation | 16 |
| 4/1 - 4/3 | Behaviors | 17, 18 |
| 4/8 - 4/10 | Localization | 19 |
| 4/15 - 4/17 | Team Robots, Learning | 20, 21 |
| 4/22 - 4/24 | New Developments in Robotics, Review for final | 22 |
The final exam is scheduled for Tuesday, 29 April, 15:15 - 17:15