Tentative Course Schedule

Week Topic Research Milestone
Dynamics and Control
Week 1 — Jan 12 Introduction to Robotics
Week 2 — Jan 19 No class (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)
Week 3 — Jan 26 Robot Dynamics
Week 4 — Feb 2 Feedback Control Project proposal due
Week 5 — Feb 9 Model Uncertainty and Disturbances
Week 6 — Feb 16 No class
Representation and Kinematics
Week 7 — Feb 23 Coordinate Frames and Transformations Student-led paper presentations begin
Week 8 — Mar 2 Robot Kinematics (and Jacobians) Student-led paper presentations
Week 9 — Mar 9 No class
Sensing and Estimation
Week 10 — Mar 16 Sensing and Computer Vision Mid-semester research progress presentations
Week 11 — Mar 23 State Estimation, Localization, and Mapping
Planning, Learning, and Decision Making
Week 12 — Mar 30 Motion Planning
Week 13 — Apr 6 Robot Learning (Overview) Final project scope locked
Week 14 — Apr 13 Integrated Autonomy: Perception–Planning–Control
Week 15 — Apr 20 Final Project Presentations Final project presentations