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CptS 483: Introduction to Robotics    
Fall 2013


 
Matthew E. Taylor (Matt)
taylorm@eecs.wsu.edu
EME 137
 
Syllabus: Fall 2013
 
 
Optional Textbook:
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots,
Second Edition, 2011.
Siegwart, Nourbakhsh, and Scaramuzza.
ISBN-10: 0262015358
 
 
Recommended Equipment:
Parrot AR.Drone 2
Amazon number: B007HZLLOK
Shakey



Schedule

      
Date
Topic
Assignment Due
8/20 First day of class  
8/22 Control Architectures, ROS  
8/27 Sensors, Vision Lab 1 Due. Submit to Angel by 11:59pm.
8/29
No Class
 
9/3 Sensors, Vision  
9/5 Legged Control, Kinematics  Lab 2 Due. Submit to Angel by 11:59pm.
9/10 Introduction, Kinematics,  
and Matt's Lecture Notes
 
9/12 Path Planning  
9/17 Class spent working on Lab 3 Homework 1 Due. Submit to Angel or  
put under Matt's office door (EME 137) by 11:59pm.
9/19 Class spent working on Lab 3  
9/24 Search and Path Planning  
9/26 Map Representations and Localization   Lab 3 Due. Submit to Angel by 11:59pm.
10/1 Review of Probability  
10/3 Lab 3 Contest (Congrats Chris!), review of labs 1 & 2, and homework 1  
10/8 Mapping  
10/10 SLAM 
More details
Homework 2 Due. Submit to Angel by 11:59pm.
Part 1 Part 2
10/15 Guest Lecture on HRI  
10/17 Discuss paper and Review for Midterm. Go over HW2 2-4 paragraph reaction to this paper due by 11:59pm on Wednesday, 10/16.
10/22
Midterm
 
10/24 Attend talk by Jaap Suermondt (12:10 in ETRL 101)
 
10/29 13 Submit ~1/2 page reaction to Jaap's talk via Angel by 11:59pm on 10/28
10/31 No Class because of FOOTBALL  
11/5 14  
11/7 15  
11/12 Machine Learning and Optimization  
11/14 No lecture: work on Lab 4 Lab 4 Due by 11:59 on Sunday, 11/17.
11/19 Reinforcement Learning Short description of Final Project due by 11:59pm on Monday, 11/18.
What are the deliverables / success conditions? Who is in the group?
11/21 Learning from Demonstration / Feedback  
... Thanksgiving Break  
12/3 Multi-Robot Problems  
12/5 No lecture: work on final projects.  
12/13 Final Presentations: 8am-10am Project Due. Project Presentations in class.
Short Exam due by 11:59 on 12/12