CSCI 4961/6961 Advanced Robotics, Spring 2000

The Project page (revised 4/18/00)
Sample reading reports
Please contact Prof. Huang regarding the grading of reading reports. Contact Richard Fauconier regarding the grading of assignments. (If you are unable to resolve matters with him, then contact Prof. Huang.)
I am adding one additional requirement to the course policies: in order to receive a passing grade for this class, you must receive a passing grade on at least 1 homework assignment and on 3 reading reports. For reading reports, I consider a passing grade to be a "3". For homework assignments, I consider a passing grade to be at least 1/3 of the points. You must also do a project to receive a passing grade in this class.

Last updates: February 22; February 11; February 9, 2000

Meetings: MW 2:00 - 3:50, CII 3045

General
- Syllabus (postscript, pdf)
- How to read a research paper and write a reading report (postscript, pdf)
Assignments
- Assignment 1 (postscript, pdf)
- Assignment 2 (postscript, pdf) Assignment 2 information
- Assignment 3 (postscript, pdf) Assignment 3 information
Course notes
- Notes on friction cones (postscript, pdf)
- Mobile robot systems and components --- rough draft (postscript, pdf)
- Control theory (postscript, pdf)

Links from Prof. Csikszentmihalyi on robotic art
Mason's draft text The Mechanics of Manipulation
You probably don't want to print this out --- it's several hundred pages, but some students have requested the reference.
On reserve at the library:
- Latombe, "Robot motion planning" (This probably isn't there yet; I just turned in the reserve request Jan 31, and I know the book is checked out, so it will take at least a few days before it is returned and on reserve.)
Some of the main conferences and journals in robotics are:
- IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robots and Systems
- IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
- International Journal of Robotics Research
- Robots and Autonomous systems
There are some others which I'll add. The library has all these journals and conference proceedings.