Project Overview

The goal of the final  project is to allow students to explore and learn a novel approach to state estimation. The project must include the application of the state estimation approach to real data. Project requirements include:

• Students must use real sensor data, either obtained from real robots, online resources, or Prof. Clark.

• Students must be able to compare their state estimator's output with some form of truth data to evaluate estimation performance.

• Students must work in groups of 2 or 3 people. 

• Students should not use LLMs to write their code.

Deliverables & Grading

The following deliverables will make up your project's grade. Note that there is a rubric attached to each deliverable that provides guidance on expectations and grading. Note that your peer evaluation scores impact grades in two ways: 

1. The evaluation you give a presenter impacts the presenter's grade.

2. The evaluation you give a presenter impacts YOUR grade. This is used to increase how much you are learning from other student's presenations. It is also a form of a participation score.

Project Proposal - 10%

• • 1-page written project proposal

Literature Review - 20%

• • Live presentation of research paper, as evaluated by the instructor - 10%

  • Live presentation of research paper, as evaluated by peers  - 5%

  • Submission of evaluation of peers' presentations  - 5%

Final Presentation - 70%

• • Live presentation of final project, as evaluated by the instructor - 55%

  • Live presentation of final project, as evaluated by peers - 10%

  • Submission of evaluation of peers' presentations  - 5%

Final Report - 10 points of lab grade

• • This will replace the points that lab 5 would have contributed to.

  • Typical format of IEEE conference paper.

Schedule

Mar. 31, 2026 - Project Kickoff 

• Introduction to the project

• Project proposals started and due by Friday, Apr. 11th at midnight on Brightspace.

Apr. 14, 2026 - Proposals

• Project proposals will be presented in class by students.

• There will be no grade for this, but there will be peer review.

Apr. 21 & 28, 2026 - Literature Reviews

• Citation of journal or conference paper to present in class, due Apr. 11th at midnight on Brightspace.

• Conference paper presenations are live in class on Apr. 21 and Apr. 28.

• Peer Evaluations due at the end of each class.

May 05, 2026 - Final Presentations

• Live presentations of final project with occur on Tuesday, May 5th in class.

  • Live demos are encouraged

• Peer Evaluations due in class by end of class at 1:30 Tuesday.

May 09, 2026 - Final Report due

• Project report due midnight on Brightspace.