CS148 Reading Assignments

Reading assignments are handed out each week. They are generally due in class the following week. Many of the questions have not totally right or wrong answers - their main purpose is to make you think about the material in the readings. The papers will be discussed in class on the day they are due.

Assigmnent 1 - Due Wednesday, January 31, 1996.

Silicon Babies Paul Wallich
The Shopping Center Problem James Albus

Assignment 2 - Due Wednesday, February 7, 1996.

Vehicles (Chapters 1-4) Valentino Braitenberg

Assignment 3 - Due Wednesday, February 21, 1996.

The Whole Iguana Rodney Brooks
A Robot that Walks; Emergent Bahaviors from a Carefully Evolved Network Rodney Brooks
Minimalist Mobile Robotics (Sections 2.1, 2.2) Jonathan Connell

Assignment 4 - Due Wednesday, March 6, 1996.

Integration of Representation Into Goal-Driven Behavior-Based Robots Maja Mataric
High Resolution Maps from Wide Angle Sonar Hans Moravec and Alberto Elfes

Assignment 5 - Due Wednesday, March 13, 1996.

Behavior-Based Robot Navigation for Extended Domains Ronald Arkin

Assignment 6 - Due Wednesday, March 20, 1996.

Animate Vision Dana Ballard
The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover (Rover section optional) Hans Moravec

Assignment 7 - Due Wednesday, April 3, 1996.

Robotics (Chapter 1) William Wolovich
Legged Robots Marc Raibert

Assignment 8 - Due Wednesday, April 10, 1996.

Automatic Programming of Behavior-Based Robots using Reinforcement Learning Mahadevan and Connell
Learning to Coordinate Behavoirs Pattie Maes and Rodney Brooks

Assignment 9 - Due Wednesday, April 17, 1996.

Collective Robotic Intelligence Kube and Zhang
A Hierarchical Protocol for Coordinating Multiagent Behaviors Durfee and Montgomery
On Traffic Laws for Mobile Robots Shoham and Tennenholtz
An architecture for Sensor Fusion in a Mobile Robot Shafer et al

Assignment 10 - Due Wednesday, April 24, 1996.

Where am I? Daniel Dennett
Intelligence Without Reason Rodney Brooks
Elephants Don't Play Chess Rodney Brooks

Bill Smart