This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Notes | Instructor |
| 1 | Aug. 27 |
Introduction (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Aug. 29 |
Mathematical Preliminaries (video, slides) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 2 | Sept. 3 |
Quadrotor Modeling (video, slides) |
Assignment 1 Released | Wennie Tabib |
| Sept. 5 |
Quadrotor Modeling (cont'd) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 3 | Sept. 10 |
Quadrotor Control I (video, slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Sept. 12 |
Quadrotor Control II (notes) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 4 | Sept. 17 |
Quadrotor Control III (notes) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Sept. 19 |
Trajectory-based Control (video, slides) |
Assignment 1 Due | Wennie Tabib | |
| 5 | Sept. 24 |
Introduction to Mapping & Localization (video, slides) |
Assignment 2 Released | Wennie Tabib |
| Sept. 26 |
Bayes Filter (video, slides) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 6 | Oct. 1 |
Occupancy Grid Maps (slides, notes) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Oct. 3 | Agricultural Robots from Perception to Action (slides) | Francisco Yandun | ||
| 7 | Oct. 8 |
Localization using Bayes Filtering (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Oct. 10 |
Particle Filter, EKF-SLAM (slides) |
Select groups for projects | Wennie Tabib | |
| 8 | Oct. 15 | No Class | Fall Break | |
| Oct. 17 | No Class | Fall Break | ||
| 9 | Oct. 22 |
3D Mapping (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Oct. 24 |
Planning Introduction (slides) |
Assignment 2 Due, Assignment 3 Released | Wennie Tabib | |
| 10 | Oct. 29 |
Quadrotor Planning (slides, video) |
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| Oct. 31 |
Planning Representations |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 11 | Nov. 5 | No Class | Democracy Day | |
| Nov. 7 |
Project Proposals (info) |
Slides Due | Student Presentations | |
| 12 | Nov. 12 |
Project Proposals (info) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Nov. 14 |
Planning in Known Workspaces slides |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 13 | Nov. 18 |
No Class
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Last day to submit Assignment 3 | Nov. 19 |
Introduction to Robotic Exploration |
Wennie Tabib |
| Nov. 21 |
Information-Theoretic Robotic Exploration, Multi-Robot |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 14 | Nov. 26 |
Frontier-based Exploration, Multi-Robot |
TBA | |
| Nov. 28 | No Class | Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 15 | Dec. 3 |
Project Demos I |
Student Presentations | |
| Dec. 5 |
Last Day of Class & Project Demos II |
Student Presentations | ||
| 16 | Dec. 11 | No Class | Project instructions, code, slides due | |
| 17 | Dec. 18 | Final Grades Due |