Syllabus
Schedule
| Date | Topic | Important Dates |
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| Week 1 Wed, Sep 3 |
Lecture Introduction to Computational Robotics |
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| Week 2 Mon, Sep 8 |
Lecture Coordinates and Transformations |
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| Week 2 Wed, Sep 10 |
Lecture Configuration Space and Workspace |
HW1 issued on Sep 12 |
| Week 3 Mon, Sep 15 |
Lecture Forward Kinematics |
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| Week 3 Wed, Sep 17 |
Lecture Inverse Kinematics |
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| Week 4 Mon, Sep 22 |
Lecture Discrete Search Algorithms |
Project teams formed |
| Week 4 Wed, Sep 24 |
Lecture Probabilistic Roadmap (PRM) |
HW1 due (Sep 26 11:59 PM) |
| Week 5 Mon, Sep 29 |
Lecture Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRT) |
HW2 issued on Sep 28; Project proposal due |
| Week 6 Wed, Oct 1 |
Lecture Control: Position Control and Impedance Control |
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| Week 6 Mon, Oct 6 |
Lecture Control: Position Control and Impedance Control (continued) |
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| Week 7 Wed, Oct 8 |
Lecture Camera Models: Pinhole Camera and Camera Calibration |
HW2 due (Oct 12 11:59 PM) |
| Week 8 Mon, Oct 13 |
Lecture Depth Cameras, LiDAR, Sensors, and SLAM |
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| Week 8 Wed, Oct 15 |
Midterm Written Exam |
Midterm Exam |
| Week 9 Mon, Oct 20 |
Lecture Simulation and Robotics Software |
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| Week 9 Wed, Oct 22 |
Lecture Supervised Learning for Robotics |
Milestone 1 due |
| Week 10 Mon, Oct 27 |
Lecture Convolutional Neural Networks |
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| Week 10 Wed, Oct 29 |
Lecture Vision Foundation Models |
>HW3 issued on Oct 31 |
| Week 11 Mon, Nov 3 |
Academic Holiday | |
| Week 11 Wed, Nov 5 |
Lecture Model Learning for Robotics |
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| Week 12 Mon, Nov 10 |
Lecture Model-Based Planning and Trajectory Optimization |
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| Week 12 Wed, Nov 12 |
Lecture Imitation Learning |
HW3 due (Nov 14 11:59 PM) |
| Week 13 Mon, Nov 17 |
Lecture Reinforcement Learning I |
Milestone 2 due |
| Week 13 Wed, Nov 19 |
Lecture Reinforcement Learning II |
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| Week 14 Mon, Nov 24 |
Lecture Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models, and Vision-Language-Action Models |
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| Week 14 Wed, Nov 26 |
Academic Holiday | |
| Week 15 Mon, Dec 1 |
Presentation Project Presentations #1 |
Project Presentations |
| Week 15 Wed, Dec 3 |
Presentation Project Presentations #2 |
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| Week 16 Mon, Dec 8 |
Presentation Project Presentations #3 |
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| Final Dec 15 |
Due Final Project Report |
Final Report Due |