| Week | Date | Topic | Handbook | Readings (5023) | Out | Due (5023) |
| 1 |
January 15 |
Course Intro/Overview | 1 | ROS Documentation |
Tech Paper |
— |
|
January 17 |
Deliberative Paradigm | 14 | Mowforth & Grant | HW1 | — | |
| 2 |
January 22 |
Deliberative Paradigm, Cont. Introduction to Reactive Robotics |
14, 13 | Pennings | HW2 | Topic ¶ |
|
January 24 |
Reactive Paradigm | 13 |
Brooks1; Brooks2 Zobel Ch 1, 10-11 |
— | HW1 | |
| 3 |
January 29 |
Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Paradigm | 12 |
Thrun; Simmons Zobel Ch 12-13 |
HW3 |
HW2 |
|
January 31 |
Hybrid Paradigm Cont. | 12 |
Albus Zobel Ch 9 |
— | References | |
| 4 |
February 5 |
Wheeled Robots |
24 |
— Zobel Ch 2 |
HW4 | HW3 |
|
February 7 |
Sensing and Estimation Inertial Sensing, GPS, and Odometry |
5, 29 |
— Zobel Ch 3 |
PR1 | — | |
| 5 |
February 12 |
Sonar Sensing Range Sensing |
30, 31 |
— Zobel Ch 4 |
— | HW4 |
|
February 14 |
3-D Vision for Navigation Multisensor Data Fusion |
32, 35 |
— Zobel Ch 8 |
HW5 |
Draft Tech Review 1 |
|
| 6 |
February 19 |
World Modeling | 45 |
— Zobel Ch 5-7 |
— |
Draft Tech Slides |
|
February 21 |
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) | 46 |
— Zobel Ch 14 |
PR2 | PR1 | |
| 7 |
February 26 |
Motion Planning and Obstacle Avoidance | 47 | — | HW6 |
HW5 |
|
February 28 |
Project Two (PR2) Work | — | — | — | Tech Slides Feedback | |
| 8 |
March 5 |
Project Two (PR2) Work | — | — | — |
HW6 |
|
March 7 |
Major Project (MP) Work | — | — | MP | PR2 | |
| 9 |
March 12 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Review 1 Feedback |
|
March 14 |
EXAM | Chapters Listed |
Tech Readings Listed (not Zobel) |
— | — | |
| 10 |
March 19 |
No Class (Spring Break) | — | — | — | |
|
March 21 |
No Class (Spring Break) | — | — | — | Final Tech Slides | |
| 11 |
March 26 |
Review Presentations |
— | — | — | — |
|
March 28 |
Review Presentations | — | — | — |
Final Tech Review 1 |
|
| 12 |
April 2 |
Review Presentations | — | — | — | — |
|
April 4 |
Review Presentations |
— | — | — |
Draft PR Slides |
|
| 13 |
April 9 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Draft Tech Review 2 |
|
April 11 |
Project Progress Reports (PRs) |
— | — | — | Final PR Slides | |
| 14 |
April 16 |
Major Project Work |
— | — | — | — |
|
April 18 |
Major Project Work |
— | — | — | Review 2 Feedback | |
| 15 |
April 23 |
Project Discussions with Groups | — | — | — |
Draft Report |
|
April 25 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Final Tech Review 2 |
|
| 16 |
April 30 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — |
Draft Poster |
|
May 2 |
Major Project Work | — | — | — | Final Report | |
|
May 3 |
Project Poster Presentations | — | — | — | Final Poster | |
| Finals | None! |
Rejoice, you are all done! (With this class, of course.) |
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