Please visit the

CORC3303 Site

• slides
• supplemental notes

• The Robotics Primer, chapter 4 (pages 29--45).
• Horsepower and Torque, by Craig Reyenga, Dec 30, 2009.
• Roll, Pitch and Yaw explanation

• PopSci's Darpa Grand Challenge Preview, by Elizabeth Svoboda. Popular Science, Oct 2005.
• No Drivers, but a Lot of Drive, by John Markoff. New York Times, Nov 11, 2007.
• Stanford's robotic Audi to brave Pikes Peak without a driver, by Christine Blackman. Stanford Report, Feb 3, 2010.

• RoboLab glossary

• Slides

• The Robotics Primer, chapter 5 (pages 46--57)
• Locomotion Systems in Robotic Application, by Omid Jahanian and Ghasem Karimi. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (2006).

• Artbots show talent, by Helen Pearson. Nature News, Jul 15, 2003.

• Unit C Lab, Part 1

• Quiz Next Week on the following topics
• HW Due next week

• Art Slides

• Unit C Lab, Part 2

• The Robotics Primer, chapters 7--8 (pages 69--96)
• Then and Now: Robot Sensors, by Tom Carroll. Servo Magazine, Jul 2007.
• Sensors, by Labautopedia. Jun 2009.
• Read this article

• Unit D Lab, Part 1
• Unit D Lab, Part 2

• Slides
• Additional Slides

• The Robotics Primer, chapters 10--11 (pages 121--143)
• The Robotics Primer, chapters 16--17 (pages 187--213)
• The Basics of Robot Control, by Maja J Mataric.
• Behavior-Based Robotics as a Tool for Synthesis of Artificial Behavior and Analysis of Natural Behavior, by Maja J Mataric. \emph{Trends in Cognitive Science, 2(3), Mar 1998.

• Better robots could help save disaster victims, by Kurt Kleiner. NewScientist.com news service, Jan 5, 2006.
• Rescue Robot Exercise Brings Together Robots, Developers, First Responders. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Nov 25, 2008.
• Researchers Create Software for Robot to Improve Rescue Missions. Science Daily, May 11, 2010.

• Parking garage collapse in Hackensack (Jul 17, 2010)
  • CRASAR blog
  • NY Daily News
  • ABC News story and video
• CRASAR web site
• CRASAR's Katrina (video), Apr 2006.

• Homework Assignment

• Workflow Study on Human-Robot Interaction in USAR, by Jennifer Casper and Robin R. Murphy. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2002.

• Unit E Lab

• xiang's slides

• The Robotics Primer, chapter 20 (pages 233--254)
• Designing Emergent Behaviors: From Local Interactions to Collective Intelligence, by Maja J Mataric. In Proceedings, From Animals to Animats 2, Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB) 1992.

• RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative, by Hiroaki Kitano, Minoru Asada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Itsuki Noda and Eiichi Osawa. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 1997.
• RoboCup: 10 Years of Achievements and Future Challenges, by Ubbo Visser and Hans-Dieter Burkhard. AI Magazine 28(2), 2007.

• UTAustin Villa 2005 on FOX Sports (video)
• RoboCup 2009 Standard Platform League Soccer Finals (video)
• RoboCup 2009 Kid-size Humanoid Soccer Robot Finals (video)
• RoboCup 2007 Small-size team from Carnegie Mellon University (video)
• Brooklyn College MetroBots RoboCup 4-Legged League team web site (2007)
• RoboCup web site

• The First Segway Soccer Experience: Towards Peer-to-Peer Human-Robot Teams, by Brenna Argall, Yang Gu and Brett Browning. In Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interactions (HRI), 2006.

• Unit F Lab Due at the end of the term.

May 17th (Thursday) Final in room 148NE 1-3pm - Please study the following topics