Announcements

Requirements Python 3.9.x and Anaconda (for managing virtual env.)
Project Ideas
Review Chapters 3, 13, 14, 15 from Russel and Norvig AI book

Schedule (subject to change)

Date	Topic, Handouts	Assignments/Due dates
week 1	Introduction and course logistics slides.pdf,   Rigid Body Motion (.pdf)   Notes (.pdf)	Get familiar Python   Read Carla paper (.pdf)   Read Habitat paper (.pdf)   Homework 0: Read Carla Paper, Read Habitat Paper
week 2	Robot Kinematics   Mobile robot kinematics slides(.pdf), notes (.pdf)   Kinematic chains notes(.pdf)	Homework 1 (see Blackboard) (due Sept 15)
week 3	Mobile Robot Control slides   Motion Planning - Graph Algorithms slides   Motion Planning - Configuration Space slides   Extra material Trajectory Generation slides   Extra PID Control pid_notes.pdf	Chapter 3.4.3 until the end in Siegwart
week 4	Motion Planning - Probabilistic Roadmaps slides   Motion Planning - Potential Fields slides	Homework 2 (see Blackboard) (due Sept 29)
week 5	Robotics Architectures slides.pdf   Steering behaviors www   Introduction to probabilistic robotics, Bayers filters slides.pdf	Chapter 5.6 in Siegwart, www.probabilistic-robotics.org
week 6	Motion and Sensor Models slides.pdf   Kalman Filter slides.pdf   Extended Kalman Filter slides.pdf   Particle filters slides.pdf   Occupancy Grids slides.pdf	www.probabilistic-robotics.org
week 7	SLAM, Graph SLAM slides.pdf   Robot perception: calibration, single view slides.pdf	Homework 3 (due Nov 3)
week 8	Robot perception: two views, 3D reconstruction slides.pdf	MASKS Vision Book Handout   KinectFusion
week 9	Robot Perception: object detection and recognition slides.pdf
week 10	Iterative Closest Point Algorithm slides.pdf
week 11	Markov Decision Processes intro slides.pdf
week 12	Markov Decision Processes intro slides.pdf
week 11	Markov Decision Processes cont. slides.pdf
week 16	Project Ideas Project Ideas   Final Project Presentation slides (.pdf)   formatting instructions latex (.tar.gz) MS word (.doc)

Related software, robot simulators, GMU info

GMU robot lab
Matlab resources - Matlab Primer 
Kalman Filter material repository 
Introduction to the Kalman filter (notes)
Teambots simulator - for single/multi robot simulation (java)
Player/Stage Robot and sensor simulator
Mason simulator - multiagent simulation base, large number of agents (java) + other simulator links
Gibson simulator
AI2 Thor Visual AI platform
Minos Flexible API
Natural Language Instructions
HoME environment Challet environment The Sick LIDAR Matlab/C++ Toolboox