Course Information for Fall 2009
Time: TR 9:30-10:45 (lecture), W 1-3:50 (lab)
Place: Roberts 221 (lecture), Roberts 228 (lab)
Instructor Information
Prof. Bruce A. Maxwell
Office: Mudd 403
Phone: 859-5854
Office hours: TBA, or just stop by
Course Description
Robotics addresses the problems of controlling and motivating mechanical devices to act intelligently in dynamic, unpredictable environments. Major topics will include: navigation and control, mapping and localization, robot perception using vision and sonar, kinematics and inverse kinematics, and robot simulation environments. To demonstrate these concepts we will be using medium sized mobile robots capable of functioning in human environments. Labs will focus on programming robots to execute tasks, explore, and interact with their environment.
Textbooks
- R. Siegwart and I. Nourbakhsh, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass, 2004.
- Handouts