Term 1

Week 1:

Watch:

• Welcome
• What is a Robot?

Project Due!

• Search and Sample Return - Make sure to submit your project this week. Do not spend too much time on stretch goals. Remember, you want to get the minimum requirements for the project so you can continue your learning. If you get stuck at all, it is suggested to reach out to your mentor of other folks in the Slack community in the #udacity_search_map channel.
• If you get stuck or need some additional information, make sure to check out our project walk-through.

Careers:

• If you have time, make sure to check out the Career Orientation videos.

Week 2:

Watch:

• Introduction to ROS
• Packages and & Catkin Workspaces
• Write ROS Nodes

Optional :

• If you have some additional time this week, you are encouraged to view the Udacity Explores Biologically Inspired Robots. Listen to an interview with Udacity's own Arpan Chakraborty as he discusses the importance of understanding biology to further research in robotics.

Careers:

• Still interested in finding a job in robotics? Make sure to watch Six Questions on Robotics Careers to hear a bit more about the industry.

Suggestion:

• Start getting ready for next week's lessons on Kinematics by moving ahead of schedule. The Kinematics project takes a lot of time so make sure to start early!

Week 3:

Watch:

• Intro to Kinematics
• Forward and Inverse Kinematics

Project:

• Robotic Arm: Pick & Place - While it may seem early, start working on the project now. This is definitely the hardest project of the term so make sure you start early and ask a lot of questions. Remember, use your mentor and other students to help tackle issues that you are facing.

Careers:

• Got an idea for a product? Learn how to pitch it with our careers team!

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Human Robot Interaction & Robot Ethics. Listen to interviews with
  • Corey Kidd (CEO - Catalia Health)
  • Andra Keay (Director - Silicon Valley Robotics)
  • Kaijen Hsiao (CTO - Mayfield Robotics)

Week 4:

Project:

• Robotic Arm: Pick & Place - By now, you should be making good progress on the project. You should understand how to calculate the modified DH parameters and working on debugging your code. Remember, use your mentor and other students to help tackle issues that you are facing. If you are really struggling, you may want to watch this project walk-through.

Careers:

• Got an idea for a product? Learn how to pitch it with our careers team!

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Human Robot Interaction & Robot Ethics. Listen to interviews with
  • Corey Kidd (CEO - Catalia Health)
  • Andra Keay (Director - Silicon Valley Robotics)
  • Kaijen Hsiao (CTO - Mayfield Robotics)

Week 5:

Project:

• Robotic Arm: Pick & Place - It is getting close to wrapping up Kinematics and moving on to perception. Remember, use your mentor and other students to help tackle issues that you are facing. If you are really struggling, you may want to watch this project walk-through.

Suggestion:

• Start looking at the perception section in your spare time to get an idea of what is coming next.

Careers:

• Got an idea for a product? Learn how to pitch it with our careers team!

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Human Robot Interaction & Robot Ethics. Listen to interviews with
  • Corey Kidd (CEO - Catalia Health)
  • Andra Keay (Director - Silicon Valley Robotics)
  • Kaijen Hsiao (CTO - Mayfield Robotics)

Week 6:

Project Due!

• Robotic Arm: Pick & Place - This is the final week to finish Kinematics. If you are really struggling, you may want to watch this project walk-through. Remember, use your mentor and other students to help tackle issues that you are facing.

Careers:

• Got an idea for a product? Learn how to pitch it with our careers team!

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Human Robot Interaction & Robot Ethics. Listen to interviews with
  • Corey Kidd (CEO - Catalia Health)
  • Andra Keay (Director - Silicon Valley Robotics)
  • Kaijen Hsiao (CTO - Mayfield Robotics)

Week 7:

Watch:

• Perception Overview
• Introduction to 3D Perception
• Calibration, Filtering, and Segmentation
• Clustering for Segmentation

Lab:

You should also complete these exercises. Completing this on-time will make the project much easier.

• Tabletop Segmentation
• Euclidean Clustering with ROS and PCL

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Soft Robotics & Robot Grasping. Listen to an interview Josh Lessing of Soft Robotics Inc.
• If you are feeling creative, see if you can solve the robot grasping challenged posted in explores. Do not forget to share your results in Slack!

Week 8:

Watch:

• Object Recognition

Lab:

You should also complete these exercises. Completing this on-time will make the project much easier.

• Object Recognition with Python, ROS and PCL

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Soft Robotics & Robot Grasping. Listen to an interview Josh Lessing of Soft Robotics Inc.
• If you are feeling creative, see if you can solve the robot grasping challenged posted in explores. Do not forget to share your results in Slack!

Week 9:

Project:

3D Perception - Now that you had a chance to finish the exercises, you should be ready to complete the project. Make sure to leverage the code that you have written!

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Soft Robotics & Robot Grasping. Listen to an interview Josh Lessing of Soft Robotics Inc.
• If you are feeling creative, see if you can solve the robot grasping challenged posted in explores. Do not forget to share your results in Slack!

Week 10:

Project Due!

3D Perception - Time to wrap up the perception project and move on the next section (controls). Remember, use your mentor and other students to help tackle issues that you are facing.

Week 11:

Watch:

• Introduction to Controls
• Quadrotor Control using PID

Lab:

Hover Controller :

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Swarm Robotics. Listen to an interview with Sabine Hauert from Robohub.org and Hauert Labs.

Careers:

• Learn how to network and meet folks in robotics!

Week 12:

Watch:

• Intro to Neural Networks

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Swarm Robotics. Listen to an interview with Sabine Hauert from Robohub.org and Hauert Labs.

Careers:

• Learn how to network and meet folks in robotics!

Week 13:

Watch:

• TensorFlow for Deep Learning
• Deep Neural Networks
• Convolutional Neural Networks

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Swarm Robotics. Listen to an interview with Sabine Hauert from Robohub.org and Hauert Labs.

Careers:

• Learn how to network and meet folks in robotics!

Week 14:

Watch:

• Fully Convolutional Networks
• Semantic Segmentation

Optional:

• If you have some additional time, check out Udacity Explore's Swarm Robotics. Listen to an interview with Sabine Hauert from Robohub.org and Hauert Labs.

Careers:

• Learn how to network and meet folks in robotics!

Suggestion:

• Start getting ready for next week as you begin to work on your final project for term 1. You are almost done!

Week 15:

Project:

• Follow Me - You are almost done. You should be working on getting your drone to follow the hero and hyper tuning the parameters this week. It is also recommend you start the report now to get it ready to submit next week!

Week 16:

Watch:

• Term 1 Outro
• Introduction to C++ for Robotics

Project Due!

• Follow Me - Make sure your report addresses all the rubric items and your code works well. Remember, there are multiple ways to solve the problem, but make sure you have a working solution!

Congratulations! You have finished the term! Make sure you check out the materials in Term 2 and do not forget to sign up!