Class Schedule

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

Date Lecture Assignment Released Assignment Due
Aug 25 Introduction slides video
Aug 27 Mathematical Preliminaries slides video Assignment 1 released here
Sep 1 Quadrotor Modeling slides
Sep 3 Quadrotor Control I slides
Sep 8 Quadrotor Control II
Sep 10 Quadrotor Control III
Sep 15 Trajectory-based Control
Sep 17 Introduction to Mapping and Localization Assignment 2 released Assignment 1 due
Sep 22 Bayes Filter
Sep 24 Occupancy Grid Maps
Sep 29 Localization using Bayes Filtering
Oct 1 Particle Filter, EKF-SLAM
Oct 6 3D Mapping
Oct 8 3D Mapping
Oct 13 No Class (Fall Break)
Oct 15 No Class (Fall Break)
Oct 20 Quadrotor Planning Sign up for project proposal (groups of 2-3)
Oct 22 Project Proposals Assignment 3 released Assignment 2 due
Oct 27 Project Proposals
Oct 29 Planning in Known Workspaces
Nov 3 No Class (Democracy Day)
Nov 5 Planning in Unknown Workspaces I
Nov 10 Planning in Unknown Workspaces II
Nov 12 Introduction to Robotic Exploration Assignment 3 due
Nov 17 Frontier-based Exploration
Nov 19 Information-Theoretic Exploration
Nov 24 Local vs. Global Mapping
Nov 26 No Class (Thanksgiving)
Dec 1 Project Presentations
Dec 3 Project Presentations Project materials due