Robotics – Syllabus and Logistics Instructor: Erol Şahin

”Weekly” syllabus Week 1: History of Autonomous Robotics. Week 2: Representing Position and Orientation - 1 Week 3: Representing Position and Orientation - 2 Week 4: Time and Motion Week 5: Mobile robots – 2 Week 6: Navigation – 1 Week 7: Navigation – 2 Week 8: Localization and Mapping – 1 Week 9: Localization and Mapping – 2 Week 10: Robot Arm kinematics – 1 Week 11: Robot Arm kinematics – 2 Week 12: Configuration space Week 13: Planning – 1 Week 14: Planning - 2

Teaching staff Instructor Dr. Erol Sahin Location: B-111, Computer Eng. Dept., Tel: 210 5539, E-mail: erol@ceng.metu.edu.tr Office hours: By appointment.

Requirements Programming In reality 20/09/07 20/09/07 Requirements Programming In reality Decent programming and debugging skills Familiarity with analyzing and plotting data Decent amount of math Have a basic understanding of Artificial Intelligence 4

What’s this course about? 20/09/07 What’s this course about? This course is more about making robots autonomous, less about building robots. Specifically, how should a robot’s control system be designed such that it can accomplish a task autonomously? Note that, the design of the control system is highly related to the mechatronic body of the robot and that related technologies and designs will also be discussed as necessary.

20/09/07 20/09/07 Textbook P. Corke. Robotics, vision and control: fundamental algorithms in MATLAB. Vol. 73. Springer S, 2011. 6

Grading Policy [20%] Attendance [30%] 1 Project [30%] 2 Homework 20/09/07 Grading Policy [20%] Attendance Possibly with reading assignments per week [30%] 1 Project [30%] 2 Homework [20%] Take-home final

Communication All communication and sharing of documents will be done through: Web: https://piazza.com/metu.edu.tr/summer2017/ceng585/home

Projects 1 project to give a hands-on experience 20/09/07 Projects 1 project to give a hands-on experience Robot Operating System (ROS) will be used Project reports 3-6 pages Evaluation will take into account Content Style Writing Discussion Should be of conference paper quality.