Lectures will be held 9:00-9:50 in AT2.11
N.B. Prior to lecture delivery, the links may point to the slides and
handouts from a previous year. These may be updated as the course progresses;
please ensure you have the most recent versions for your revision purposes.
Note also that the timetable of topics here may be subject to revision.
Date: |
Lecture content: |
September 18 (Barbara Webb) |
Introduction slides |
September 21 (Barbara Webb) |
Reactive Control slides |
September 25 (Barbara Webb) |
Sensing for action slides |
September 28 (Barbara Webb) |
Exploiting physics slides |
October 2 (Barbara Webb) |
Behaviour Based Control slides |
October 5 (Barbara Webb) |
Hybrid Systems slides |
October 9 (Barbara Webb) |
Probabilistic Approaches slides solution to example problem |
October 12 (Barbara Webb) | Maps and Planning slides |
October 16 |
Discussion of the book "Vehicles" by
Valentino Braitenberg N.B. All students will be expected to have read this (very short) book before this session. |
October 19 Bob Fisher |
Guest lecture: Prof. Bob Fisher will give some highlights from the progress of
the EC funded TrimBot2020 hedge-trimming project, including
a video of first autonomous navigation in one of the test gardens,
and first hedge-trimming.
|
October 23 |
No lecture |
October 26 (Barbara Webb) | Filters slides Derivation of the Kalman filter Kalman and Bayesian Filters in Python |
October 30 (Barbara Webb) |
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping slides Additional slides for SLAM equations Introductory article on SLAM |
November 2 (Barbara Webb) |
SLAM in practice slides Introductory article on SLAM part II |
November 6 (Barbara Webb) |
Collective Robotics slides |
November 9 (Barbara Webb) |
Evolutionary robotics slides |
November 13 James Garforth |
Guest lecture: what are the current most successful (visual) SLAM algorithms? |
November 16 (Barbara Webb) |
Robots as dynamical systems slides |
November 20 (Barbara Webb) |
Case Study & Revision slides |
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