1. Robotics – Syllabus and Logistics
Instructor: Erol Şahin

2. ”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

3. Teaching staff Instructor Dr. Erol Sahin
Location: B-111, Computer Eng. Dept.,
Tel: ,
Office hours: By appointment.

4. Requirements Programming In reality
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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

5. What’s this course about?
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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.

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

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

8. Communication
All communication and sharing of documents will be done through:
Web:

9. Projects 1 project to give a hands-on experience
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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.