This schedule is preliminary and subject to change as the term evolves.
| Week | Date | Lecture | Notes | Instructor |
| 1 | Jan. 16 |
Introduction (slides, video) |
Knowledge Survey Form | Wennie Tabib |
| Jan. 18 |
Mathematical Preliminaries (slides, video) |
Knowledge Survey Due and Assignment 1 Released | Wennie Tabib | |
| 2 | Jan. 23 |
Quadrotor Modeling (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Jan. 25 |
Quadrotor Control I (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 3 | Jan. 30 |
Quadrotor Control II (notes) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Feb. 01 |
Quadrotor Control III (notes) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 4 | Feb 06 |
Introduction to Mapping & Localization (slides,
video) |
Assignment 1 Due | Wennie Tabib |
| Feb 08 |
Bayes Filter (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 5 | Feb 13 |
Occupancy Grid Maps (slides, notes, video) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Feb. 15 |
Localization using Bayes Filtering (slides, video) |
Assignment 2 Released | Wennie Tabib | |
| 6 | Feb. 20 |
Particle Filter, EKF-SLAM (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Feb. 22 |
3D Mapping (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 7 | Feb. 27 |
Quadrotor Planning I (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Feb. 29 |
Quadrotor Planning II (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 8 | Mar. 05 | No Class | Spring Break | |
| Mar. 07 | No Class | Spring Break | ||
| 9 | Mar. 12 |
Guest Lecture (slides) |
Yonatan Bisk | |
| Mar. 14 |
Guest Lecture (slides) |
Jiaoyang Li | ||
| 10 | Mar. 19 |
Guest Lecture (slides, video) |
Assignment 2 Due Assignment 3 Released | Guanya Shi |
| Mar. 21 |
Guest Lecture (slides) |
Zackory Erickson | ||
| 11 | Mar. 26 |
Planning in Known Workspaces (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Mar. 28 |
Planning in Unknown Workspaces I (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 12 | Apr. 02 |
Planning in Unknown Workspaces II (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Apr. 04 |
Introduction to Robotic Exploration (slides) |
Assignment 3 Due | Kshitij Goel | |
| 13 | Apr. 09 |
Frontier-based Exploration (slides,
video) |
Assignment 4 Released | Wennie Tabib |
| Apr. 11 | No Class | Spring Carnival | ||
| 14 | Apr. 16 |
Information-Theoretic Exploration & Local vs. Global Mapping (slides, video) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Apr. 18 |
Multi-Robot Exploration (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 15 | Apr. 23 |
Swarm Robots (slides) |
Wennie Tabib | |
| Apr. 25 |
TBD |
Wennie Tabib | ||
| 16 | May 2 | No Class | Assignment 4 Due |