Class Schedule

This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.

Date Lecture Assignment Released Assignment Due
Aug 26 Introduction slides
Aug 28 Mathematical Preliminaries slides video Assignment 1 released here
Sep 2 Quadrotor Modeling
Sep 4 Quadrotor Control I
Sep 9 Quadrotor Control II
Sep 11 Quadrotor Control III
Sep 16 Trajectory-based Control
Sep 18 Introduction to Mapping and Localization Assignment 2 released Assignment 1 due
Sep 23 Bayes Filter
Sep 25 Occupancy Grid Maps
Sep 30 Localization using Bayes Filtering
Oct 2 Particle Filter, EKF-SLAM
Oct 7 3D Mapping
Oct 9 Quadrotor Planning I
Oct 14 No Class (Fall Break)
Oct 16 No Class (Fall Break)
Oct 21 Quadrotor Planning II and Planning Representations Assignment 3 released Assignment 2 due
Oct 23 Project Proposals
Oct 28 Project Proposals
Oct 30 Planning in Known Workspaces
Nov 4 No Class (Democracy Day)
Nov 6 Planning in Unknown Workspaces I
Nov 11 Planning in Unknown Workspaces II
Nov 13 Introduction to Robotic Exploration Assignment 3 due
Nov 18 Frontier-based Exploration
Nov 20 Information-Theoretic Exploration
Nov 25 Local vs. Global Mapping
Nov 27 No Class (Thanksgiving)
Dec 2 Project Presentations
Dec 4 Project Presentations Project materials due