CSCI 455 Schedule Fall 2008

Important Dates

Jan 9

  First Day of Class

Jan 21

 MLK Holiday (No class)

Feb 25

   Exam 1

Mar 21-30

  Spring Break
(after last class)

Mar 31

  Exam 2

Apr 21

Last day of class

Final Project/Tournament
Apr 23

Final Exam in class
0800 - 1100 hrs

Labs

  1.  Potential Fields Lab  (due Feb. 1)

  2. Search Lab (due Feb 18)

  3. Sumo Lab (due Mar 17)

  4. Final Project (due April 21)

Homework

Assigned Readings & Lecture Notes

"PR" refers to "Probabilistic Robotics" by, Thrun, Burgard and Fox
The dates for readings will be given in class.
  1. AI Wiki, Robotics Wiki
  2. Handout Chapter 2
  3. Online Potential Fields Tutorial
  4. Decision Theory  Framework Tutorial
  5. Handout Chapter 3
  6. Chapter 4 Handout 4.1-4.2 &  A* tutorial
  7. Chapter 4 Handout 4.3-4.5 & Search Tutorial
  8. PR, Chapter 2 & Online Tutorial secs 1-3
  9. PR, Chapter 7
  10. Brooks Paper on Subsumption Architecture/Behavioral Robotics
  11. Embedded Systems
  12. Mars Rover Mission Paper (Handout)
  13. Building a Light-Seeking Robot with Q-Learning
  14. A Neural Network for Java Lego Robots
  15. Mathematics of Backpropagation

Other Notes

  1. Count on about two to three hours of work per day in addition to class time, so between six and nine hours of work outside of class each week.  Most of this work will be programming and testing work.  If you find that I am underestimating the time you spend on things, please let me know.
  2. There's something due (almost) every week.
  3. Exams 1 & 2 will be take home exams. They will be handed out the day of each respective review, and are due back the following class period. The final exam will be given in class on the scheduled date and time. You will be required to record your starting and ending times on each exam.