Artificial Intelligenceand Robotics

Spring 2014

Instructor

• Marius Silaghi

General Introduction

• CSE 5694 content

• Grading

• Policies

Objectives

• To provide a grand tour of the organization of this semester’s class

Study

• By the book– Russel&Norvig: Artificial Intelligence

• By slides and hand-notes– Linked from the website of the class:

www.cs.fit.edu/~msilaghi/spring_semester

• Everything mentioned in class has to be retained– Write down notes of what we discuss and is not on

slides!

CSE 5694 Topics

• Introduction

• Robotics Overview: The role of planning

• Robotics and AI algorithms

• Planning with POP

• (Dynamic) Bayes Nets

• Markov Chains, HMMs, POMDPs, Kalman Filters

• iCreate robot, R12 arm

Grading

Take Home exam 1 (15% each)

Take Home exam 2 (15% each)

Project mobile robot (15%)

Project robot arm (15%)

Project robot vision (15%)

Attendance & Participation. 5%

Paper Review 20%

Attendance and Participation

• Attendance is taken each class, and together with participation it is worth 5% of the final grade.

• You are considered absent at a lecture during which you watch a device (laptop/PDA/phone, etc.) or read a book.

• Participation is a measure of your constructive involvement in the course:– asking “the right questions”– at “the right time”– being serious and non-disturbing otherwise– helping your colleagues when needed– attending office hours

Plagiarism

• Submission of the same project by two teams corresponds to getting -50% of the points for that project (a negative score).

• You get -100% if your code is found to come from the Internet

Have fun!

• Suggestions are welcome.

End of General Introduction