For detailed information on this course please see the course syllabus in html or pdf format.
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me for a copy.
Week | Readings | Tentative Due Dates |
Week 1, Aug 26 |
Monday:
Course Intro
Wednesday: A. Bircher, M. Kamel, K. Alexis, H. Oleynikova, and R. Siegwart, Receding horizon path planning for 3D exploration and surface inspection, Auton Robot, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 291-306, Feb. 2018. |
Course Survey Due Tues |
Week 2, Sept 2 |
Monday: NO CLASS, Labor Day
Wednesday: [1] How to Read a Scientific Article. Rice University, 2004. Online. [2] S. Keshav. How to Read a Paper. Online. |
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Week 3, Sept 9 |
Monday: (Alisha)
M. G. Muller, F. Steidle, M. J. Schuster, P. Lutz, M. Maier, S. Stoneman, T. Tomic, and W. Sturzl. Robust Visual-Inertial State Estimation with Multiple Odometries and Efficient Mapping on an MAV with Ultra-Wide FOV Stereo Vision. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. Wednesday: [1] R. A. Day, "How to write a scientific paper," ASM News, vol. 42, pp. 486-494, 1975. [2] English Communication for Scientists: Writing Scientific Papers (not required to read, but another reference) [3] Writing for computer science. New York, NY: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015. |
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Week 4, Sept 16 |
Monday:
M. Cakmak and A. L. Thomaz, Designing Robot Learners That Ask Good Questions, in Proceedings of the Seventh Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, New York, NY, USA, 2012, pp. 17-24. Wednesday: (Siya) M. E. Walker, H. Hedayati, and D. Szafir, Robot Teleoperation with Augmented Reality Virtual Surrogates, in 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2019, pp. 202-210. |
Finalize Project Groups (Wednesday) |
Week 5, Sept 23 |
Monday: (Mike) K. A. Roundtree, M. A. Goodrich, and J. A. Adams, Transparency: Transitioning From Human-Machine Systems to Human-Swarm Systems, Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 171-195, Sep. 2019. Wednesday: No Class Schedule 30 minute group meetings with Dr. Detweiler |
Develop Project Proposal
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Week 6, Sept 30 |
Monday: (Chenxi)
J. R. Cauchard, J. L. E, K. Y. Zhai, and J. A. Landay, Drone & Me: An Exploration into Natural Human-drone Interaction, in Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, New York, NY, USA, 2015, pp. 361-365. Wednesday: Discuss project ideas in groups (bring draft of proposal!). |
Final Project Proposal Due |
Week 7, Oct 7 |
Monday: (Junzhe)
R. M. Aronson, T. Santini, T. C. Kubler, E. Kasneci, S. Srinivasa, and H. Admoni, Eye-Hand Behavior in Human-Robot Shared Manipulation, in Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, New York, NY, USA, 2018, pp. 4-13. Wednesday: J. B. Lyons, M. A. Clark, A. R. Wagner, and M. J. Schuelke, Certifiable Trust in Autonomous Systems: Making the Intractable Tangible, AI Magazine, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 37-49, Oct. 2017. |
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Week 8, Oct 14 |
Monday: (Krishna)
J. Tan, T. Zhang, E. Coumans, A. Iscen, Y. Bai, D. Hafner, S. Bohez, and V. Vanhoucke, Sim-to-Real: Learning Agile Locomotion For Quadruped Robots, Apr. 2018 [Online] Wednesday: Z. Ren, T. Wang, W. Hu, and M. Sitti, Magnetically-Actuated Untethered Jellyfish-Inspired Soft Milliswimmer., RSS, 2019. |
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Week 9, Oct 21 Fall Break Mon-Tues |
Monday: No Class
Wednesday: Final Project Status Reports on RW |
Final Project Status Reports on RW |
Week 10, Oct 28 |
Monday:
Heemels, W. P. M. H., et al. Stability analysis and controller synthesis for hybrid dynamical systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 368.1930 (2010): 4937-4960. Wednesday: (Xinkai) DeCastro, Jonathan A., and Hadas Kress-Gazit. Synthesis of nonlinear continuous controllers for verifiably correct high-level, reactive behaviors. The International Journal of Robotics Research 34.3 (2015): 378-394. |
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Week 11, Nov 4 |
Monday: (Mohannad)
Feyzabadi, Seyedshams, and Stefano Carpin. Risk-aware path planning using hirerachical constrained markov decision processes. Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2014 IEEE International Conference on. IEEE, 2014. Wednesday: Gopalan, Nakul, et al. Planning with abstract Markov decision processes. Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling. 2017. |
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Week 12, Nov 11 |
Monday: (Yanfeng)
K. M. Feigh, M. C. Dorneich, and C. C. Hayes, Toward a characterization of adaptive systems a framework for researchers and system designers, Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 1008–1024, 2012. Wednesday: Sheridan, Thomas B. Adaptive automation, level of automation, allocation authority, supervisory control, and adaptive control: distinctions and modes of adaptation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics-Part A: Systems and Humans 41.4 (2011): 662-667. |
Final Project Status Reports |
Week 13, Nov 18 |
Monday: (Ji Young)
T. Johannink et al., Residual Reinforcement Learning for Robot Control, 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2019, pp. 6023-6029. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794127 Wednesday: He, Wei, Yiting Dong, and Changyin Sun. Adaptive neural impedance control of a robotic manipulator with input saturation. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 46.3 (2015): 334-344. |
All Article Reviews Due (Wednesday) |
Week 14, Nov 25 Thanksgiving Weds-Fri |
Monday:
Wednesday: No Class |
Final Project Writeup Due (Monday) |
Week 15, Dec 2 |
Monday:
Wednesday: |
Final Project Videos Due (Mon)
Final Project Article Reviews Due (Weds) |
Week 16, Dec 9 |
Monday:
Wednesday: |
Project Presentations (M,W) and Final Writeup Due (Fri) |