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Course materials
| # | DATE | TOPIC | NOTES |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jan 26 | Course Info | html, html |
| 2 | Jan 28 | Software | ROS Install Directions ROS Website |
| 3 | Jan 28 | Homework 1, due Feb 10 (5pm) | pdf, data |
| 4 | Jan 31 | Review material | Probability, Linear Algebra |
| 5 | Feb 9 | Project proposals due on Feb 15 | format: docx, txt |
| 3 | Jan 28 | Homework 1 solution | pdf solution, |
| 6 | Feb 10 | Homework 2, due Feb 23 (5pm) | pdf, p3 files, p4 files |
| 7 | Feb 12 | OpenCV | OpenCV library, Section PPT |
| 8 | Feb 18 | Rovio ROS Drivers | Guide, zip |
| 9 | Feb 22 | Homework 3, due Mar 9 (5pm) | pdf, p1 files, p2 files |
| 10 | Feb 25 | Homework 2 solution | pdf solution, |
| 11 | Mar 4 | Homework 4, due Mar 19, 5pm. | pdf, p4 files |
| 12 | Mar 23 | Project midterm report template, due April 1, 11:59pm by email. | Format: txt, docx. |
| 13 | April 5 | Homework 3 solution | pdf solution, |
| 14 | Feb 25 | Homework 4 solution | pdf solution, |
| 15 | Apr 12 | Homework 5, due Apr 20 5pm. | pdf, p1 files, p2 files |
| 16 | Apr 12 | Prelim Solution. | |
| 17 | Apr 21 | Homework 6 preview, due May 6, 5pm. | pdf, p1 files |
| 18 | Apr 22 | Final project report (max 8 pages, PDF) format. | Latex, Word, due May 19, 5pm. (hard deadline). Sample papers: 1, 2. |
| 19 | April 23 | Rovio ROS Drivers Update | Guide, zip |
| 20 | April 30 | Homework 5 solution |
Paper reading list for CS 6780
Here is a list of some interesting papers. You are free to pick up a few papers from this list or suggest your own.
Hai Nguyen, Advait Jain, Cressel Anderson, and Charles C. Kemp. A Clickable World: Behavior Selection Through Pointing and Context for Mobile Manipulation. IEEE/RJS International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2008.
High-Accuracy 3D Sensing for Mobile Manipulation: Improving Object Detection and Door Opening, Morgan Quigley, Siddharth Batra, Stephen Gould, Ellen Klingbeil, Quoc Le, Ashley Wellman and Andrew Y. Ng. In International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.
Robotic Grasping of Novel Objects using Vision, Ashutosh Saxena, Justin Driemeyer, and Andrew Y. Ng. In International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2008.
H. Dahlkamp, A. Kaehler, D. Stavens, S. Thrun, and G. Bradski. Self-supervised monocular road detection in desert terrain. In G. Sukhatme, S. Schaal, W. Burgard, and D. Fox, editors, Proceedings of the Robotics Science and Systems Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
An Application of Reinforcement Learning to Aerobatic Helicopter Flight, Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Morgan Quigley and Andrew Y. Ng. In NIPS 19, 2007.
Kober, J.; Peters, J. (2009). Policy Search for Motor Primitives in Robotics, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22 (NIPS 2008).
Ingmar Posner, Mark Cummins and Paul Newman A generative framework for fast urban labeling using spatial and temporal context. Autonomous Robots, 26(2-3):153-170. April 2009.
Jared Glover, Daniela Rus and Nicholas Roy. "Manipulation using Probabilistic Models of Object Geometry''. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2008). Zurich, Switzerland, 2008.
Ruijie He, Sam Prentice and Nicholas Roy. "Planning in Information Space for a Quadrotor Helicopter in a GPS-denied Environments''. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2008). Los Angeles, 2008.
"Learning to Localize Objects with Structured Output Regression." Matthew B. Blaschko and Christoph H. Lampert, ECCV 2008.