CS4630 Spring 2000
Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision

This is www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2000/cs4630_spring

ASSIGNMENTS:

Assignment 1

C2000 Captured Material:

C2000 captured lectures. New dynamically generated web pages.
C2000 captured lectures. Old static web pages.

Instructor: Chris Atkeson

The best way to contact me is to use email:
cga@cc.gatech.edu

I am interested in numerical machine learning for
future computing environments
and
intelligent systems and robotics.

TA: Yaxin Liu

I communicate with you (and you all with each other) using:
Course components (estimated grading weight):
- lectures (syllabus)
- assignments (45%)
- some additional "minor" assignments (10%)
- project (45%)
Recommended textbooks:
- Introduction to Robotics, P. J. McKerrow, Addison-Wesley, 1991. has more material on vision than other robotics books.
- J. Craig (1986) Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control, Addison-Wesley. A popular textbook, the one I used back in the 80s.
- K. Fu, R. Gonzalez, & C. Lee (1987), Robotics: Control, Sensing, Vision, and Intelligence, McGraw-Hill. has vision stuff.
- Behavior-Based Robotics (Intelligent Robots and Autonomous Agents) Ronald C. Arkin / Hardcover / Published 1998. written by GT COC professor so you can get the author to sign your book. 5 stars on Amazon.com
Language policy: use any computer language you want. I provide sample code in C, C++, Matlab, and Java (one of these at a time, not all of them).

COLLABORATION:
You may work in groups on the assignments and project. However each of you should turn in an independent writeup.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS:
Assignments are due by the day and time specified in the assignment description. Late assignments will only be accepted with prior permission of the instructor or the TA.
- Cye Personal Robot
- Java API: follow the JCye link
- CMU Project We purchased a special version without the wireless link (-$100) so that we can control it directly with a computer on the trailer. Our linux box on the trailer then communicates with the outside world via wireless ethernet. Probotics provides an API for Windows, but no Linux support yet. To get around that, we're building our own Java API. The robot has very good odometry but not much in the way of sensing -- it can detect when it bumps something, but that's about it. We're adding color vision.
  Tucker Balch
  The Robotics Institute
  Carnegie Mellon University
  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~trb
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CS4630 Spring 2000 Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision

CS4630 Spring 2000
Intelligent Robotics and Computer Vision