For detailed information on this course please see the course syllabus in html or pdf format.
Most articles are available from on campus by clicking on the links
below. If this does not work (or you are off campus), try google, using the UNL VPN or
the UNL library website. If
you are still unable to download the article, contact a classmate or
me for a copy.
Week | Readings | Tentative Due Dates |
Week 1, Aug 20th |
Monday:
Course Intro
Wednesday: No Class Friday: K.-C. Ma, L. Liu, H. K. Heidarsson, and G. S. Sukhatme, Data-driven learning and planning for environmental sampling, Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 35, no. 5, pp. 643-661, Aug. 2018. |
Course Survey Due Tues |
Week 2, Aug 27th |
Monday:
How to Read a Scientific Article. Rice University, 2004. Online. S. Keshav. How to Read a Paper. Online. Wednesday: P. Oettershagen, T. Stastny, T. Hinzmann, K. Rudin, T. Mantel, A. Melzer, B. Wawrzacz, G. Hitz, and R. Siegwart, Robotic technologies for solar-powered UAVs: Fully autonomous updraft-aware aerial sensing for multiday search-and-rescue missions, Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 612-640, Jun. 2018. Friday: N. Sunderhauf, O. Brock, W. Scheirer, R. Hadsell, D. Fox, J. Leitner, B. Upcroft, P. Abbeel, W. Burgard, M. Milford, and P. Corke, The limits and potentials of deep learning for robotics, The International Journal of Robotics Research, vol. 37, no. 4-5, pp. 405-420, Apr. 2018. |
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Week 3, Sept 3rd |
Monday: No Class (Labor Day)
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 Friday: No Class CSCE 50th Anniversary Celebration |
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Week 4, Sept 10th |
Monday:
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. Wednesday: H. M. La, N. Gucunski, K. Dana, and S.-H. Kee, Development of an autonomous bridge deck inspection robotic system, Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 1489-1504, Dec. 2017. Friday: No Class |
Finalize Project Groups (Monday) |
Week 5, Sept 17th |
Monday: (Ajay)
J. Han, J. Park, T. Kim, and J. Kim, Precision navigation and mapping under bridges with an unmanned surface vehicle, Auton Robot, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 349-362, Apr. 2015. Wednesday: 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. Friday: Roy, Pritam, Paulo Tabuada, and Rupak Majumdar. Pessoa 2.0: a controller synthesis tool for cyber-physical systems. Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Hybrid systems: computation and control. ACM, 2011. |
Develop Project Proposal
Schedule a 30 group meeting Weds-Fri to discuss possible projects. |
Week 6, Sept 24th |
Monday:
Discuss project ideas in groups (bring draft of proposal!). Wednesday: (Chandima) 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. Friday: Proposal Due! Ingrand, Felix, and Malik Ghallab. Deliberation for autonomous robots: A survey. Artificial Intelligence 247 (2017): 10-44. |
Final Project Proposal Due |
Week 7, Oct 1st |
Monday:
C. Goerzen, Z. Kong, and B. Mettler, A survey of motion planning algorithms from the perspective of autonomous UAV guidance, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 57, no. 1–4, pp. 65–100, 2010. Wednesday: (Daniel) Blankenburg, Janelle, et al. A distributed control architecture for collaborative multi-robot task allocation. Humanoid Robotics (Humanoids), 2017 IEEE-RAS 17th International Conference on. IEEE, 2017. Friday: No Class |
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Week 8, Oct 8th |
Switching to longer two day a week classes.
Monday: Ding, Xuchu, et al. Optimal control of Markov decision processes with linear temporal logic constraints. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 59.5 (2014): 1244-1257. Wednesday: 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. Friday: No Class |
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Week 9, Oct 15th Fall Break Mon-Tues |
Monday: No Class
Wednesday: Present project status report to class (10 minutes on RW) Friday: (Bill) Alvaro Caballero, Alejandro Suarez, Fran Real, Victor M. Vega1, Manuel Bejar, Angel Rodriguez-Castano, and Anibal Ollero. First Experimental Results on Motion Planning for Transportation in Aerial Long-Reach Manipulators with Two Arms. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. |
Final Project Status Reports |
Week 10, Oct 22nd |
Monday:
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: No Class Friday: (Ashraful) Ryo Miyazaki, Rui Jiang, Hannibal Paul, Koji Ono and Kazuhiro Shimonomura. Airborne Docking for Multi-Rotor Aerial Manipulations. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018. |
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Week 11, Oct 29rd |
Monday: (Minal) L. Johannsmeier and S. Haddadin, A Hierarchical Human-Robot Interaction-Planning Framework for Task Allocation in Collaborative Industrial Assembly Processes, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 41-48, Jan. 2017. Wednesday (Happy Halloween): No Class Friday: (Adam) P. Misra, A. A. Kumar, P. Mohapatra, and P. Balamuralidhar, DroneEARS: Robust Acoustic Source Localization with Aerial Drones, in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018, pp. 80-85. |
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Week 12, Nov 5th |
Monday: Final Project Status Reports
Wednesday: (Eleanor) C. Finn, X. Y. Tan, Y. Duan, T. Darrell, S. Levine, and P. Abbeel, Deep spatial autoencoders for visuomotor learning, in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016, pp. 512-519. Friday: No Class |
Final Project Status Reports |
Week 13, Nov 12th |
Monday: 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: No Class Friday: How to give a talk (no reading) |
All Article Reviews Due (Monday) |
Week 14, Nov 19 Thanksgiving Weds-Fri |
Monday: Final Project Writeup Due
Wednesday: No Class Friday: No Class |
Final Project Writeup Due (Monday) |
Week 15, Nov 26th |
Monday:
Wednesday: Friday: |
Final Project Videos Due (Mon)
Final Project Article Reviews Due (Weds) |
Week 16, Dec 3rd |
Monday:
Wednesday: Friday: |
Project Presentations (M,W,F) and Final Writeup Due (Fri) |