| Part 1: Introduction to Robotics Control | |
09/03/2024 (Tue) | Class 1: Introduction to the course | HW 1 Released |
09/05/2024 (Thu) | Tutorial 1: numpy/scipy, rover setup [Colab] [Colab with solutions] | |
09/10/2024 (Tue) | Class 2: Optimization 101 | |
09/12/2024 (Thu) | Class 3: Gradient Descent | |
09/17/2024 (Tue) | Tutorial 2: Rover Setup | |
09/19/2024 (Thu) | Class 4: Supervised Learning | HW 1 Due |
09/24/2024 (Tue) | Class 5: Rigid Body Transformations I | HW 2 Released |
09/26/2024 (Thu) | Class 6: Rigid Body Transformations II | |
10/01/2024 (Tue) | Class 7: Forward Kinematics | |
10/03/2024 (Thu) | Class 8: Inverse Kinematics | HW 2 Due |
10/08/2024 (Tue) | Class 9: Robot Dynamics & Jacobian | HW 3 Released |
10/10/2024 (Thu) | Tutorial 3: Coding Transforms [Colab] | |
10/15/2024 (Tue) | NO CLASS | |
10/17/2024 (Thu) | Tutorial 4: Coding Jacobians [Colab] | |
10/22/2024 (Tue) | Guest Lecture: TBD | |
10/24/2024 (Thu) | Class 10: Introduction to Control | HW 3 Due |
10/29/2024 (Tue) | Class 11: Linear Quadratic Regulators | HW 4 Released |
10/31/2024 (Thu) | Class 12: Non-Linear Dynamics and LQR Variants | |
| Part 2: Sensing and Fusion | |
11/05/2024 (Tue) | Class 13: Robot Sensing | |
11/07/2024 (Thu) | Tutorial 5: Coding LQRs [Colab] | |
11/12/2024 (Tue) | Class 14: Introduction to filtering: Kalman Filters, Extended Kalman Filters | HW 4 Due |
11/14/2024 (Thu) | Irmak Güzey: Tactile Sensing for Robotic Manipulation | |
| Part 3: Planning | |
11/19/2024 (Tue) | Class 15: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping | HW 5 Released |
11/21/2024 (Thu) | Class 16: Planning and Configuration Spaces | HW 6 Released |
11/26/2024 (Tue) | Class 17: Heuristic Planning and Sample-Based Planners | |
| Part 4: Advanced Topics | |
12/03/2024 (Tue) | Class 18: Computer Vision for Robotics | HW 5 Due |
12/05/2024 (Thu) | Class 19: Model Predictive Control | |
12/10/2024 (Tue) | Class 20: Imitation Learning | |
12/12/2024 (Thu) | Class 21: Reinforcement Learning | HW 6 Due |