| Week | Date | Topic | Handbook | Readings (5023) | Out | Due (5023) |
| 1 |
August 21 |
Course Intro/Overview | 1 | ROS Documentation |
Tech Paper |
— |
|
August 23 |
Deliberative Paradigm | 14 | — | HW1 | — | |
|
August 25 |
Deliberative Paradigm | 14 |
Mowforth & Grant
— |
— | Topic ¶ | |
| 2 |
August 28 |
Deliberative Paradigm Introduction to Reactive Robotics |
14, 13 |
Pennings
— |
HW2 | — |
|
August 30 |
Reactive Paradigm | 13 |
Brooks1 Zobel Ch 1 |
— | HW1 | |
|
September 1 |
Reactive Paradigm | 13 |
Brooks2 Zobel Ch 10-11 |
— | References | |
| 3 |
September 4 |
No Class (Labor Day) | — | — | — | — |
|
September 6 |
Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Paradigm | 12 |
Thrun Zobel Ch 12-13 |
HW3 | — | |
|
September 8 |
Hybrid Paradigm | 12 |
Simmons Zobel Ch 9 |
PR1 |
HW2 |
|
| 4 |
September 11 |
Hybrid Paradigm | 12 |
Albus Zobel Ch 2 |
— | — |
|
September 13 |
Wheeled Robots |
24 |
— Zobel Ch 3 |
|
HW3 | |
|
September 15 |
Sensing and Estimation Inertial, GPS, and Odometry |
5, 29 |
— Zobel Ch 3 |
HW4 | — | |
| 5 |
September 18 |
Sensing and Estimation Inertial, GPS, and Odometry |
5, 29 |
— Zobel Ch 4 |
— |
Draft Tech Review 1 |
|
September 20 |
Sonar Sensing Range Sensing |
30, 31 |
— Zobel Ch 8 |
— |
|
|
|
September 22 |
3-D Vision for Navigation Multisensor Data Fusion |
32, 35 |
— Zobel Ch 8 |
PR2 | PR1 | |
| 6 |
September 25 |
3-D Vision for Navigation Multisensor Data Fusion |
32, 35 |
— Zobel Ch 5-7 |
— |
Draft Tech Slides |
|
September 27 |
World Modeling | 45 |
— Zobel Ch 14 |
HW5 |
HW4 | |
|
September 29 |
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) | 46 |
— Zobel Ch 14 |
— | — | |
| 7 |
October 2 |
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) | 46 | — | — | Review 1 Feedback |
|
October 4 |
Motion Planning and Obstacle Avoidance | 47 | — | HW6 | HW5 | |
|
October 6 |
No Class (Fall Holiday) | — | — | — | — | |
| 8 |
October 9 |
Major Project (MP) Work | — | — | MP | PR2 |
|
October 11 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
HW6 |
|
|
October 13 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Tech Slides Feedback | |
| 9 |
October 16 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | — |
|
October 18 |
EXAM | Chapters Listed |
Tech Readings Listed (not Zobel) |
— | — | |
|
October 20 |
EXAM | Chapters Listed |
Tech Readings Listed (not Zobel) |
— | — | |
| 10 |
October 23 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Final Tech Slides |
|
October 25 |
Tech Review Presentations |
— | — | — | — | |
|
October 27 |
Tech Review Presentations |
— | — | — | — | |
| 11 |
October 30 |
Tech Review Presentations |
— | — | — |
Final Tech Review 1 |
|
November 1 |
Tech Review Presentations |
— | — | — | — | |
|
November 3 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | — | |
| 12 |
November 6 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Draft Tech Review 2 |
|
November 8 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Draft PR Slides |
|
|
November 10 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Tech Review2 | |
| 13 |
November 13 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | — |
|
November 15 |
Project Progress Reports (PRs) |
— | — | — | Final PR Slides | |
|
November 17 |
Project Progress Reports (PRs) |
— | — | — | Review 2 Feedback | |
| 14 |
November 20 |
Major Project Work |
— | — | — |
Draft Report |
|
November 22 |
No Class (Holiday) |
— | — | — | — | |
|
November 24 |
No Class (Holiday) |
— | — | — | — | |
| 15 |
November 27 |
Project Discussions with Groups | — | — | — | — |
|
November 29 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Final Tech Review 2 |
|
|
December 1 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Draft Poster |
|
| 16 |
December 4 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | — |
|
December 6 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Final Report | |
|
December 8 |
Project Poster Presentations | — | — | — | Final Poster | |
| Finals | None! |
Rejoice, you are all done! (With this class, of course.) |
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