Advanced Robotics CS4830/7000

The “Advanced Robotics” class is first offered in Fall 2010 as a honors course. This is a hands-on class with the long-term goal to design a multi-robot team that can assemble intelligent structures from modular building blocks. The focus of the class this year is inspired by NASA’s sample return robot challenge and consists of the autonomous exploration of Andrews Hall and searching for building blocks that are scattered in the environment.

We will meet Monday, Wednesday and Friday in Andrews Hall. Mondays are dedicated to seminars in which students present current research papers that are relevant to the project. Laboratory exercises that introduce students to the PrarieDog platform and software will be on Wednesdays. Fridays are reserved for design reviews where students present their progress and discuss further proceedings in class.

Prerequisites: Instructor’s consent

Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 2pm-2.50pm

Location: ANDS N102

Materials: Available from the course wiki

Advanced Robotics CS4830/7000

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Building up on “Introduction to Robotics”, this class provides an overview over current topics in robotics research and participation in a multi-year project-based learning experience motivated by grand challenge applications.

NASA’s sample return robot challenge is the motivation for Fall 2009. Robots will autonomously explore Andrews Hall to search for modular robotic building blocks. In further iterations of the class, robots will assemble these blocks into intelligent structures.

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