Keith J. O'Hara

teaching

CMSC 360

Intelligent Robotics and Perception

overview | logistics | organization | schedule | announcements | labs | sketches | resources

Class: Monday & Wednesday 3:00pm-4:30pm (RKC 107)
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 11am-12pm and by appointment

Textbook

• Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots. Siegwart and Nourbakhsh. MIT Press. 2004.
  Available at amazon or the bookstore.

Grade Breakdown

• Labs (40%): Four substantial programming assignments.
• Project (20%): Team project worked on for approximately 3/4 of the term.
• Quizzes (15%): Short open-note quizzes given approximately every two weeks.
• Homework (15%): Small written assignments.
• Presentation (5%): Oral presentation on a robot case study.
• Participation (5%): Positive impact on the class

Policies

• Attend class.
• Be on time.
• Participate.
• Come to class prepared. We'll rely on both the textbook and various research papers for this class, make sure to have the required reading done BEFORE class.
• Complete all assignments, and start early.
• Cooperate, but don't copy.
  • Credit work, including all sources you used from the web, other books, etc.
  • Sharing ideas is encouraged, but blatantly copying work without attribution will be treated as scholastic dishonesty and receive no credit.
• Late work will be accepted up to one week late, losing 10% of the total possible credit per day.
• Quizzes can not be taken late without prior special permission.