MOB: Schedule

Textbook Abbreviation:

  • PR - Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox. "Probabilistic Robotics", MIT Press, 2005.
  • KR - Michael Gelfond and Yulia Kahl. "Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and the Design of Intelligent Agents: The Answer Set Programming Approach", Cambridge University Press, 2014.
  • RL - Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto. "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction", Second edition, MIT Press, 2018. (full PDF available for free)
  • (Optional) PGM - Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman. "Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques", MIT Press, 2009.
     

All relevant material will be discussed in class. The "supplementary readings" (including any links to papers provided later) are for additional information about the corresponding topics.  The "optional" items are not in the official reading list but are available through our library.

Course Lecture+Tutorial Schedule
 Week  Date Lecture (Slides)  Topic(s) Supplementary Readings
1 12 Jan

S1_Introduction

S2_ProbabilityBasics

Introduction, 

Probability basics

Chapter 2, PR
14 JanS3_ProbStateEstimateProbability basics, state estimationChapter 2, PR; (Optional) Chapter 2, PGM
 15 JanS4_GraphBayesNetsGraphs, Bayes networks(Optional) Chapter 2, PGM
2 19 Jan Graphs, Bayes networks 
 21 JanSlidesROS2 tutorial 
 22 JanS5_RobotMotionRobot motionChapter 5, PR
326 JanS6_RobotSensingRobot sensingChapter 6, PR
28 JanS7_GaussianFiltersGaussian filtersChapter 3 (3.1-3.4), PR
29 Jan Gaussian filters 
42 FebS8_ParticleFiltersParticle filtersChapter 4, PR
4 Feb Particle filters 
5  FebS9_MappingLocalization, MappingChapter7, Chapter 8 (8.1, 8.3-), PR
59 Feb MappingChapter 9, PR
11 FebSlidesVisual SLAM tutorial 
12 Feb   
623 FebS10_FastSLAMSLAMChapter 10, PR
25 Feb SLAMChapter 13, PR
 26 FebS11_MDPMDPsChapter 14, PR; (optional) Chapter 1, 3, RL
72 Mar MDPs 
4 MarS12_MDP_RLMDP, RL(Optional) Chapter 1,3, RL
5 Mar RL(Optional) Chapters 4-6, RL
8 9 MarS13_POMDPPOMDPChapter 15, PR
 11 MarS13b_POMDP_ExamplePOMDP example 
12 Mar POMDP 
916 MarS14_Dec-POMDPDec-POMDP 
18 Mar Dec-POMDP, examples 
19 Mar LogicsChapter 1-2, KR
1023 Mar LogicsChapter 4, KR
25 Mar LogicsChapter 5, KR
26 Mar LogicsChapter 8, KR
1130 Mar LogicsChapter 9, KR
1 Apr Practical examples 
2 Apr Practical examples 
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