CS395T: Autonomous Robots -- Assignments

Things to do ASAP (before the first class if possible)

Week 0 (9/1): Class Overview

Week 1 (9/6,9/8): Open-R

Programming: (due Thursday, 9/8 at 12:30pm)

Week 2 (9/13,9/15): Movement

Week 3 (9/20,9/22): Movement

• Machine Learning for Fast Quadrupedal Locomotion
  Nate Kohl and Peter Stone
  In The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 611-616, July 2004.
• Evolutionary Gait-Optimization Using a Fitness Function Based on Proprioception
  Thomas Roefer
  In: RoboCup 2004: Robot World Cup VIII, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI 3276), 2005.

• Send some comments/questions about the readings.
• As usual, your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 3 exercises".

Week 4 (9/27,9/29): Vision

• Fast and Cheap Color Image Segmentation for Interactive Robots
  James Bruce, Tucker Balch and Manuela Veloso.
  In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2000. (Jim Bruce's original paper)
• CMU Tech-report CMU's RoboSoccer team tech report, 2000. Read Section 1.1 for now.
• The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team, Extended version
  Read Sections 4, 4.1-4.3, 14.
• The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age
  Read Sections 3, 3.1,3.2 (and the first couple of appendices if you're interested)

• Send some comments/questions about the readings. Note: this time you do not need to send something about each reading individually.
• As usual, your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 4 exercises".

Week 5 (10/4,10/6): Vision

• CMU Tech-report CMU's RoboSoccer team tech report, 2000. Read rest of Section 1.
• The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team, Extended version
  Read Sections 4.4-4.6, 14.
• The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age
  Read Sections 3.3-3.5 (and the first couple of appendices if you're interested)

• Send some comments/questions about the readings. Note: this time you do not need to send something about each reading individually.
• As usual, your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 5 exercises".

Week 6 (10/11,10/13): Localization

• Adapting the Particle Size in Particle Filters Through KLD-Sampling
  Dieter Fox.
  In the International Journal of Robotic Research, IJRR, 2003.
  (An excellent description of robot localization - Read Sections 1,2 at least )
• Vision-Based Fast and Reactive Monte-Carlo Localization
  Thomas Roefer and Matthias Jungel.
  In the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA, 2003.
  (This paper provides implementation details for the Aibo in Sections III and IV - you can focus on those sections)
• The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team, Extended version
  Read Section 8 for basic implementation details.
• The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age
  Read Section 7 (and Appendix D for info on the Simulator) - current implementation.

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 6 exercises".

Week 7 (10/18,10/20): Behavior

• The UT Austin Villa 2003 Four-Legged Team, Extended version
  Read Sections 9-13.
• The UT Austin Villa 2004 RoboCup Four-Legged Team: Coming of Age
  Read Sections 8-10

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 7 exercises".

Week 8 (10/25,10/27): Behavior

• None

• Once you have determined what you would like to do for your project and with whom you would like to work, send a description of your project as well as your particular goals for it (one per person - not per team). Make sure to include the name(s) of your partner(s). The more detail you provide, the more easily we will be able to provide meaningful feedback.
• See the final project page for more details.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Project proposal".

Week 9 (11/1,11/3): Behavior Architectures

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 9 exercises".

Week 10 (11/8,11/10): Control

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 10 exercises".

Week 11 (11/15,11/17): Kalman Filters

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 11 exercises".

Week 12 (11/22): Applications

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 12 exercises".

Week 13 (11/29, 12/1): Multi-Robot Systems

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 13 exercises".

Week 14 (12/6, 12/8): Ethics/Project Demos

• Once you have completed the readings, send some comments/questions about them.
• Your response should be sent as ASCII text (not encoded in any way) to Peter Stone & Dan Stronger with subject: "Week 14 exercises".