The final presentations will take place during the last two classes (see schedule).
You should plan a 10 minute presentation with slides and five minutes for questions. There will be no final exam. See the schedule for the written final project due date.

Your final project should be a written description of your work with the following sections:

  • Abstract
    • First sentence: why the problem is important/hard
    • Second sentence: why related work falls short.
    • Third-fifth sentences: summarize your technical apporach
    • Sixth-seventh sentences: What can the robot do that it couldn’t do before?
  • Introduction
    • First paragraph: why the problem is important
    • Second paragraph: high-level summary of previous approaches and why they fall short.
    • Third/fourth paragraphs: your technical approach for solving the problem.
    • Fifth paragraph: Your evaluation - how you know it works.
  • Related Work
    • Description of related work. Describe the previous approach, and then describe how your approach is different/better.
  • Technical Approach
    • Formal description of the problem you are solving.
    • Description of the technical approach you used to solve it.
    • Equations are the “bones” of the paper. Each equation should flow from the next, explaining the approach.
  • Evaluation
    • What was your goal in building the technical approach above?
    • How do you know you achieved your goal?
    • Quantitative Evaluation: Compare to reasonable baselines on a number of representative tasks and quantify performance.
    • Qualitative task: video demonstration of the robot’s new capability.
  • Conclusion
    • First paragraph: summary of the paper.
    • Second, third, and fourth paragraphs: Future work and open problems, becomeing more and more abstract/long term.