teaching
CMSC 360
Intelligent Robotics and Perception
overview | logistics | organization | schedule | announcements | labs | resourcesThe course will be organized into four units this semester: Puppets, Ants, Bats, and Camels. Each unit will explore successful robots and techniques within the themes of the course:
- sensing, thinking and acting;
- hardware and software;
- programming, planning, and learning.
| unit | case studies | emphasis | sense | think | act |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
puppets |
telegarden; davinci; sensor-nets | teleoperating | time; temperature | teleoperation; data-collection | kinematics |
ants |
elsie; elmer; genghis; roomba | programming | contact; IR; odometry | behavior-based | mobility; bug-algorithms |
bats |
shakey; spirit; opportunity; xavier | planning | sonar; laser | hybrid architecture; localization | search |
camels |
alvinn; stanley; pegasus; curiosity | learning | cameras | vision | reinforcement learning |