Schedule subject to change as needed. This page will be updated to reflect any changes.
Lecture notes and slides can be found by clicking on the lecture topics.
| # | Date | Topic | Assigned | Due |
| 1 | 2-Sep | Introduction to Robotics | HW1 | |
| 2 | 7-Sep | Tools: ROS, Docker, Python, Linux | ||
| 3 | 9-Sep | ROS Programming I | HW2 | HW1 |
| 4 | 14-Sep | Debugging Robots | ORDER DUCKIEBOT! | |
| 5 | 16-Sep | ROS Programming II | HW3, Lab1 | HW2 |
| 6 | 21-Sep | Setting Up and Calibrating | ||
| 7 | 23-Sep | ROS Parameters and Remapping | HW4 | HW3 |
| 8 | 28-Sep | Introduction to Autonomy | ||
| 9 | 30-Sep | LAB DAY | ||
| 10 | 5-Oct | LAB DAY | Lab1 | |
| 11 | 7-Oct | Coordinate Systems Example Problems |
HW4 | |
| 12 | 12-Oct | ROS TF Dynamic Systems |
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| 13 | 14-Oct | Robot Odometry | HW5, Lab2 | |
| 14 | 19-Oct | Robot Perception | ||
| 15 | 21-Oct | Introduction to Computer Vision | HW6 | HW5 |
| 16 | 26-Oct | Color Filtering | ||
| 17 | 28-Oct | Edge and Line Detection | HW7 | HW6 |
| 18 | 2-Nov | Camera Calibration | ||
| 19 | 4-Nov | LAB DAY | HW8, Lab3 | Lab2 |
| 20 | 9-Nov | Introduction to Controls | ||
| X | 11-Nov | NO CLASS Veteran’s Day | HW7 | |
| 21 | 16-Nov | Guest Lecture Intelligent Machinery: How Blue River Technology creates intelligent machinery to solve monumental problems for our customers Nicholas Lessley |
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| 22 | 18-Nov | PID Controllers | HW8 | |
| 23 | 23-Nov | Path Planning | HW9, Lab4 | |
| X | 25-Nov | NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 24 | 30-Nov | LAB DAY | Lab3 | |
| 25 | 2-Dec | ROS Services and Actions | HW10 | HW9 |
| 26 | 7-Dec | Ethics and Robotics | ||
| 27 | 9-Dec | Human-Robot Interaction | HW10 | |
| F | 16-Dec | Final Demo Day | Lab4 |