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Date |
Lecture |
Office Hours |
Project/Assignment |
Hand-in |
| Week 1 |
Mon 1/13 |
Course overview and introduction to VEX AIM.
Videos: Chiara piano,
Chiara chess |
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Reading:
Ten Big Ideas in Robotics |
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| Wed 1/15 |
Robot software architecture and Python control structure. |
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Read the slides from Beazley's 2009 coroutines lecture. Somehwat dated but still really good. |
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| Fri 1/17 |
Lab 1: Meet VEX AIM |
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Install vex-aim-tools.
Browse the IEEE Automaton blog
for photos and videos of cool robots. |
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| Week 2 |
Mon 1/20 |
No class. Martin Luther King holiday. |
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| Wed 1/22 |
Finite state machines. |
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| Fri 1/24 |
Lab 2: Odometry |
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Finish Lab 2 for homework. |
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| Week 3 |
Mon 1/27 |
Lecture:
More state machines, and intro to particle filters. |
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Try out particle_filter_demo
and pfdemo.py. |
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| Wed 1/29 |
Particle filters. |
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If you would like to learn more, see these excellent
lectures
on probabilistic robotics. |
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| Thu 1/30 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 1/31 |
Lab 3: Particle filters. |
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Finish lab 3 for homework. |
Lab 2 due |
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| Week 4 |
Mon 2/3 |
Lecture:
Kinematics.
Videos:
Denavit-Hartenberg conventions,
Towers of Hanoi,
3-dof arm IK,
high-dof tentacle IK,
tentacle manipulation
Resource:
numpy quick start.
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Read: Introduction to homogeneous
transformations and robot kinematics, by Jennifer Kay.
Watch: Denavit-Hartenberg Conventions |
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| Wed 2/5 |
The world map. |
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Visualizing quaternions video series.
Play with quaternions.online (click the bars to change rotation). |
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| Thu 2/6 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 2/7 |
Lab 4: Kinematics. |
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Finish Lab 4 for homework. |
Lab 3 due. |
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| Week 5 |
Mon 2/10 |
More kinematics,
world maps, and SLAM
Videos:
Robot Navigation Using SLAM by Ibrahim Musba.
SLAM A 00 by Claus Brenner.
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Watch:
Lidar vs. Vslam for robot vacuums. |
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| Wed 2/12 |
Path planning algorithms.
RRT Animation Gallery.
Videos: A* Search,
Tekkotsu hand/eye planner
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| Thu 2/13 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 2/14 |
Lab 5: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. |
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Finish Lab 5 for homework. |
Lab 4 due. |
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| Week 6 |
Mon 2/17 |
Intro to OpenCV.
Demo: CircleWatcher.py
OpenCV part 2.
Shape matching.
Watershed algorithm
(more info).
Files: water_coins.jpg,
watershed.py.
Matplotlib slides.
Examples: PlotDrive.fsm,
PlotDrive.py;
and Histogram.fsm
Histogram.py
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Browse OpenCV
Python Tutorials, specifically
on contours.
Matplotlib
usage. Matplotlib
tutorial info. |
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| Wed 2/19 |
Speech generation and recognition.
Demo: Speech1.fsm.
Google Speech API demo
Winograd's SHRDLU system, and a
modern version. |
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Read about SHRDLU.
Review regular expressions in Python. |
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| Thu 2/20 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 2/21 |
Lab 6: Path Planning. |
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Finish Lab 6 for homework. |
Lab 5 due |
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| Week 7 |
Mon 2/24 |
Backpropagation learning.
Demos: linfit.py,
encoder .py,
approxfn .py,
approxfn2 .py,
approxfn3 .py,
mnist1 .py
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| Wed 2/26 |
Autonomous driving with ALVINN.
Watch the ALVINN video
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Read the ALVINN demo source code. |
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| Thu 2/27 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 2/28 |
Lab 7: Neural Networks and ALVINN |
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Lab 6 due |
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| Week 8 |
Mon 3/3 |
Spring break: no class. |
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| Wed 3/5 |
Spring break: no class. |
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| Fri 3/7 |
Spring break: no lab. |
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| Week 9 |
Mon 3/10 |
Convolutional networks.
Demos: mnist1.py,
mnist2.py,
mnist3.py
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| Wed 3/12 |
ImageNet and transfer learning.
Try these MobileNet demos. |
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| Thu 3/13 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 3/14 |
Lab 8: Convolutional Neural Networks. |
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Lab 7 due |
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| Week 10 |
Mon 3/17 |
Machine
learning in Python: scikit-learn.
Extra slides
on EM
algorithm.
Demo: emdemo.py
Demo: RGBClusterer.fsm,
RGBClusterer.py |
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| Wed 3/19 |
Transformer networks and large language models.. |
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Word Embedding Demo
BERT-insight Demo
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| Thu 3/20 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 3/21 |
Lab 9: Large Language Models. |
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Lab 8 due |
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| Week 11 |
Mon 3/24 |
Calypso for Cozmo. |
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Watch Calypso
videos: intro,
and keep-away
tutorial. Have a look at
the Calypso
Curriculum. Then
read Computational
thinking and mental models: from Kodu to Calypso.
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| Wed 3/26 |
Prompt engineering. Discussion of project ideas. |
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Final projects from last year |
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| Thu 3/27 |
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Kailash 2-3 pm |
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| Fri 3/28 |
Lab 10: Calypso for Cozmo |
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Lab 9 due |
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| Week 12 |
Mon 3/31 |
Final project ideas.
Work on final projects. |
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| Wed 4/2 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Fri 4/4 |
No lab. Spring Carnival |
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Lab 10 due |
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| Week 13 |
Mon 4/7 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Wed 4/9 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Fri 4/11 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Week 14 |
Mon 4/14 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Wed 4/16 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Fri 4/18 |
Work on final projects |
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| Week 15 |
Mon 4/21 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Wed 4/23 |
Work on final projects. |
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| Fri 4/25 |
Demos of your final projects. |
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Final project hand-in due by Sunday May 4. |
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