CSCI 4190: Introduction to Robotics Algorithms, Spring 2006

General information
Items on Reserve

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General information

Time:	Mondays and Thursdays, 10:00 – 11:50pm
Location:	Sage 3713
Prerequisites:	CSCI 2300 Data Structures and Algorithms
	MATH 1020 Calculus II
	MATH 2800 Intro. to Discrete Structures
Text:	none (course notes handed out in class)

Teaching staff

Instructor:	Prof. Wes Huang
email:	whuang@cs.rpi.edu
Office:	MRC 331B (inside 331A)
Office hours:	Mondays 3:30 - 5:00, or by appointment (Tues 2/21: 4-5pm)

TA:	Kris Beevers
email:	beevek@cs.rpi.edu
Office hours location:	MRC 345
Office hours:	Tuesdays 2:30 - 4:00

Course Description

This course is an introduction to algorithms for robotic systems. The theme of the course is how these algorithms intelligently make use of sensory information from their environment and purposefully act upon it. Topics will include motion planning, processing sensor information, localization, mapping, and handling uncertainty. We will discuss applications in mobile robotics and in robotic manipulation. There is a laboratory component of this class in which students will implement a number of these algorithms on mobile robots.

Items on Reserve

The following items will be on reserve in the Folsom library:

"Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics" by Dudek and Jenkin, 2000.
"Principles of Robot Motion" by Choset et al., 2005.
"Probabilistic Robotics" by Thrun, Burgard, and Fox, 2005.
"Behavior-based Robotics" by Arkin, 1998.
"Robot Motion Planning" by Jean-Claude Latombe, 1991.
"Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotics" by Kortenkamp, Bonasso, and Murphy, 1998.
"Mobile Robots: From inspiration to implementation," by Jones and Flynn, 1993 (first edition). (If you're interested in buying this book for yourself, there is a second edition out by Jones, Seiger, and Flynn.

Assignment web pages

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