Prerequisites: Programming and Mathematics

Course Instructor: Dr. Yasir Niaz Khan (Office: in Liberty Lab for Robotics & Embedded Systems)

Lectures: Monday: 4:30 – 5:50 pm and Friday: 4:00-5:20 pm, Room: New-4

Course Website: http://www.yasirniaz.com/teaching/mobrob_fall15

Course Folder: \\xeon\Faculty\Dr. Yasir Niaz\Teaching\MobRob_fall15

Course Discussion Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MobRob_fall15

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Course Outline:

• Lecture slides present at: \\xeon\Faculty\Dr. Yasir Niaz\Teaching\MobileRobots2015

Reference Texts:

• Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, by Howie Choset, Seth Hutchinson and George Kantor.
• Probabilistic Robotics, by Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox. MIT Press.
• Handbook of Robotics, by Bruno Siciliano, Oussama Khatib. Springer.
• Robotics: Modeling, Planning and Control, by Bruno Siciliano, Lorenzo Sciavicco, Luigi Villani and Giuseppe Oriolo

Assessment

Project 15 (-15)

Quizzes & Assignments 20 (+5)

Mid-term 25 (+5)

Final 40 (+5)

Course Policy:

1. Cheating in Exams and Assignments may result in an 'F' grade and additional penalty as well.
2. Many quizzes and assignments will be held, but not all will be graded. 2-3 of each will be checked.
3. Assignments and Project deliverables will be posted on SLATE.