Course Information

Lectures:

Course	Day	Time			Location
CISC 3415	M	6.30pm	-	9.15pm	3409N

The textbook for the course is:

Roland Siegwart and Illah Nourbakhsh
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
ISBN 0-262-19502 (hardbound)
Cambridge: MIT Press

and we will also refer to:

George Bekey
Autonomous Robots
ISBN 0-262-025787 (hardbound)
Cambridge: MIT Press

Description:

Mobile robotics is a big area, and this course concentrates on one particular area; how to develop software to effectively control a mobile robot. Leaning heavily on the AI tradition of robotics, we will (briefly) cover:

Locomotion
Kinematics
Perception
Localization
Planning and Naviagtion

A printed information sheet is available, and you can find more detail on what we will cover on the syllabus page.