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Intelligent Autonomous Robotics

Lectures

All lectures will be held 9:00-9:50 in AT 2.14
N.B. Prior to lecture delivery, the links point to the slides and handouts from last 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 17 (Barbara Webb)	NO LECTURE See week one special arrangements.
September 20 (Barbara Webb)	Introduction slides handout
September 24 (Barbara Webb)	Exploiting physics slides handout
September 27 (Barbara Webb)	Sensing for action slides handout
October 1 (Barbara Webb)	Reactive Control slides handout
October 4 (Barbara Webb)	Behaviour Based Control slides handout
October 8 (Class discussion)	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 11 (Barbara Webb)	Exploiting dynamics slides handout
October 15 (Barbara Webb)	Biologically inspired navigation slides handout
October 18 (Barbara Webb)	Navigating with maps slides handout
October 22	Catchup and consolidation
October 25 (Barbara Webb)	Localisation slides handout Solution for the two node map problem in the slides
October 29 (Barbara Webb)	Filters slides handout Derivation of the Kalman filter
November 1 (Barbara Webb)	Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping slides handout Introductory article on SLAM
November 5 (Barbara Webb)	SLAM in practice slides handout Introductory article on SLAM part II
November 8	Guest lecture: Wyatt Newman
November 12 (Barbara Webb)	Planning and Control slides handout
November 15 (Barbara Webb)	Hybrid Systems slides handout
November 19 (Barbara Webb)	Case Study slides handout

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