Instructor

Chris Clark

Email: cmclark AT calpoly.edu

office: 14-211

office hours: Tue/Thur 9:15-10:00 a.m., Wed 12:10-1:00, Fri 2:10-3:00 p.m.

Lecture

location: 14-302

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

Lab

location: 14-302

time: Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:40 - 3:00 pm

Marking

50% Experiments

40% Exam

10% Seminar Presentation

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:

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

Recommended:

2. "Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control"
George A. Bekey, 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.