16-761: Mobile Robots

Schedule

Date Lecture Assignment Released Assignment Due
Jan 13 Introduction slides video Assignment 0 released here
Jan 15 Mathematical Preliminaries slides video
Jan 20 Quadrotor Modeling slides video
Jan 22 Quadrotor Control 1 slides video Assignment 1 released here Assignment 0 due
Jan 27 Quadrotor Control 2 video notes
Jan 29 Quadrotor Control 3 video notes
Feb 3 Introduction to Mapping & Localization slides
Feb 5 Bayes Filter
Feb 10 Occupancy Grid Maps
Feb 12 Localization using Bayes Filtering Assignment 2 released Assignment 1 due
Feb 17 Particle Filter, EKF-SLAM
Feb 19 3D Mapping
Feb 24 Quadrotor Planning I
Feb 26 Quadrotor Planning II
Mar 3 Spring Break | No Class
Mar 5 Spring Break | No Class Assignment 3 released Assignment 2 due
Mar 10 Quadrotor Planning II and Planning Representations Project proposal due
Mar 12 Planning in Known Workspaces
Mar 17 Planning in Unknown Workspaces I
Mar 19 Planning in Unknown Workspaces II
Mar 24 Introduction to Robotic Exploration
Mar 26 Frontier-based Exploration Assignment 4 released Assignment 3 due
Mar 31 Information-Theoretic Exploration & Local vs. Global Mapping
Apr 2 Multi-Robot Exploration
Apr 7 Swarm Robots
Apr 9 Spring Carnival | No Class Assignment 4 due
Apr 14 Wrap-Up
Apr 16 Project Presentations
Apr 21 Project Presentations
Apr 23 Project Presentations | Last Day of Class
Apr 24 No Class Project Materials Due