CS148 Syllabus

There are a couple of things to be aware of:
# DATE TOPIC
READING/
QUESTIONS DUE
LAB DUE
1January 24 Introduction
2January 31
Classical Approach
Shakey
Silicon Babies
Albus (shopping)
3February 7
Braitenberg Vehicles
Rex
Braitenberg (Ch 1-4) Lisp
4February 14 Rex (continued)
Robot Base
Rex (Q1)
5February 21
Situated Approach
Behavoir Based
Subsumption
Whole Iguana
Walking Robot
Connell Chapter
Rex
6February 28
Other Architectures
RAPS, SSS, TCS, Gapps
Vehicles Checkpoint
7March 6
World Modelling
Sonar Maps
Mataric
Moravec & Elfes
Vehicles
8March 13
Incorporating Other Sensors
Local Navigation
Arkin Obstacle Avoidance Checkpoint
9March 20 Vision
Stanford Cart
CMU Rover
Ballard
Light Seeking and Obstacle Avoidance
March 27
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS
10April 3
Industrial Robots
High Level Planning/Reasoning
Wolovich
Raibert
Final Project Proposal
11April 10 Robot Learning
Maes/Brooks
Mahadevan/Connell
12April 17
Multiple Agents
Case Study: High-level Architectures
Collective Intelligence
Traffic Laws
Multiagent Behoviors
Shafer, et al
Final Project Milestone 1
13April 24 Philosophy
Intelligence Without
Where am I?
Elephants and Chess
Final Project Milestone 2
14May 1 Talent Show Final Project
May 10 Exam on Readings at 2pm Final Project Paper


Bill Smart