Grading, Ranking, Project

Lectures: Monday and Friday 11:30-12:50 (room New-8)

Office: in front of New-8.

Course Outline:

1. Introduction
2. Mathematical Foundations
3. Kinematic modeling of wheel-driven mobile robots
4. Modeling of flying robots
5. Bayes Rule and Particle Filters
6. Environment Mapping
7. Localization
8. SLAM
9. Motion Planning
10. Path Planning
11. Navigation, Path following and Collision avoidance
12. Exploration
13. Robot Vision

Reference Texts:

• Handbook of Robotics, Siciliano, Bruno; Khatib, Oussama. Springer. (Ch 1,17,44,46 and Part C & E)
• Probabilistic Robotics, Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox, MIT Press.
• Introduction to Robotics, Ph. J. McKerrow, Addison-Wesley

Assessment

Project: 10

Quizzes & Assignments: 20

Mid(x2) 30

Final: 40

• [25-11-2013] See the schedule of Project Presentations.
• [22-11-2013] Submit your paper review till Wednesday mid-night 27-11-2013 by email. Send both .tex and .pdf files.
• [04-11-2013] Mid-2 will take place on Monday 11-11-2013.
• [04-11-2013] Submit your term paper proposal by Friday 08.11.2013.
• [28-10-2013] Assignment-4 is the last Quiz-3. Submit in next class on Friday 08.11.2013.
• [07-10-2013] Assignment-3 deadline Monday 14.10.2013 till 12 at night. Submit by email.
• [20-09-2013] Midterm-1 on Friday 27.09.2013.
• [16-09-2013] Assignment-2 deadline is Saturday 28-09-2013 till 12 at night. You can place it on Xeon or email it to me. Late submission will get deduction of 10% marks per hour.
• [23-08-2013] Assignment-1. Deadline is Friday 30-08-2013 at the start of the class.