CmpE 434 Introduction to Robotics 2012 Fall

Instructor: 

Course Program: 

CmpE434 is an undergraduate robotics course offered in the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University.

The course focuses on designing, building, and programming autonomous robots using Lego Mindstorms EV3 kits.

Students gain working knowledge about topics including uncertainty in sensing and action as well as methods for dealing with it, self localization, path planning and obstacle avoidance, behavior based and reactive controller architectures, basic control theory, and advanced topics like multi-robot systems, learning, and mapping.

Each team of two students are lent one Lego Mindstorms EV3 kit for the term. There are 10 labs and a term project which are done using the kits.

In order to take the final exam you have to complete all the labs!

Prerequisite: Consent of the Instructor

Topics

  • Introduction to Robotics
  • AI & Agents
  • Programming Lego EV3 with Java
  • Sensors
  • Actuators
  • Locomotion
  • Control
  • Robot Control Architectures
  • Behavior Based Architectures
  • Localization
  • Path Planning
  • Mapping
  • Learning
  • Multi-robot Systems
  • Social Robotics

Textbook: 

Maja J. Mataric, The Robotics Primer, MIT Press, 2007

Grading: 

Grading ItemWeight
Labs25
Final25
Term Project50

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Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University,
34342 Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

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