Instructor

Chris Clark

Email: cmclark AT calpoly.edu

office: 14-211

office hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 3-4:00 p.m.

Lecture

location: 14-303

time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:10 - 1:30 pm

Lab

location: 14-303

time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Marking

40% Experiments

40% Final Exam

10% Midterm Assignment

10% Competition

Textbooks

Required:

1. "An introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots", Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh, MIT Press 2004.

Recommended:

1. "Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control"
George A. Bekey, MIT Press, 2005.

2. "Probabilistic Robotics", Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox, MIT Press, 2005.

3. "Principles of Robot Motion", Howie Choset, Kevin M. Lynch, Seth Hutchinson, George Kantor, Wolfram Burgard, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Sebastian Thrun, MIT Press, 2005.

4. "Behavior-Based Robotics", Ronald C. Arkin, MIT Press 1998.