Instructor

Chris Clark

Email: cmclark AT calpoly.edu

office: 14-303

office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Lecture

location: 14-232B

time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:10 - 8:30 pm

Lab

location: 14-303

time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8:40 - 10:00 pm

Marking

30% Experiments

10% Case Study Presentation

15% Test

45% Project

Late Policy

Any assignments or projects turned in late will have the grade reduced by 10% per day late. A zero will be given on case study presentations that are not prepared on time.

Textbooks

Required:

none

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.

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