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Week | Readings | Tentative Due Dates |
Week 1, Aug 22 | Tuesday: Course Intro Thursday: Read Sections I-IV of C. Cadena and L. Carlone and H. Carrillo and Y. Latif and D. Scaramuzza and J. Neira and I. Reid and J.J. Leonard, Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics 32 (6) pp 1309-1332, 2016 |
Course Survey Due Thurs |
Week 2, Aug 29 | Tuesday: Read Sections V-end of C. Cadena and L. Carlone and H. Carrillo and Y. Latif and D. Scaramuzza and J. Neira and I. Reid and J.J. Leonard, Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age, in IEEE Transactions on Robotics 32 (6) pp 1309-1332, 2016 Thursday: [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 5 | Tuesday: G. Best, R. Garg, J. Keller, G. A. Hollinger, and S. Scherer, Resilient Multi-Sensor Exploration of Multifarious Environments with a Team of Aerial Robots, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. Thursday: [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 |
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Week 4, Sept 12 | Tuesday: [1] M. Wei and V. Isler, Predicting Energy Consumption of Ground Robots on Uneven Terrains, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 594-601, Jan. 2022. Thursday: T. Jin, X. Wang, H. Ji, J. Di and H. Yan, Collision Avoidance for Multiple Quadrotors Using Elastic Safety Clearance Based Model Predictive Control, 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022. |
Finalize Project Groups |
Week 5, Sept 19 | Tuesday: No Class, project work time Thursday: No Class, schedule 30 minute group meetings with Dr. Detweiler |
Develop Project Proposal |
Week 6, Sept 26 | Tuesday: Fulton, M., Mehtaz, M., Sattar, J. and Queeglay, O., Underwater Robot-To-Human Communication Via Motion: Implementation and Full-Loop Human Interface Evaluation, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. Thursday: Discuss project ideas in groups (bring draft of proposal!). |
Final Project Proposal Due |
Week 7, Oct 3 | Tuesday: F. M. Rockenbauer et al., Dipper: A Dynamically Transitioning Aerial-Aquatic Unmanned Vehicle, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVII, Jul. 2021, vol. 17. Thursday: P. Neubert and S. Schubert, SEER: Unsupervised and sample-efficient environment specialization of image descriptors, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. |
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Week 8, Oct 10 | Tuesday: F. Kong, W. Xu, Y. Cai, and F. Zhang, Avoiding Dynamic Small Obstacles With Onboard Sensing and Computation on Aerial Robots, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 7869-7876, Oct. 2021. Thursday: S. E. Lensgraf et al., Droplet: Towards Autonomous Underwater Assembly of Modular Structures, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVII, Jul. 2021, vol. 17. |
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Week 9, Oct 17 Fall Break Mon-Tues |
Tuesday: No Class Thursday: A. N. Sivakumar et al., Learned Visual Navigation for Under-Canopy Agricultural Robots, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVII, Jul. 2021, vol. 17. |
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Week 10, Oct 24 | Tuesday: No Class, group work time Thursday: No Class, Final Project Status Reports on RW due |
Final Project Status Reports on RW |
Week 11, Oct 31 | Tuesday: T. Y. Tang, D. D. Martini, and P. Newman, Get to the Point: Learning Lidar Place Recognition and Metric Localisation Using Overhead Imagery, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVII, Jul. 2021, vol. 17. Thursday: V. Viswanath et al., Autonomously Untangling Long Cables, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. |
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Week 12, Nov 7 | Tuesday: L. Clark, J. Edlund, M. S. Net, T. S. Vaquero, and A. Agha-mohammadi, PropEM-L: Radio Propagation Environment Modeling and Learning for Communication-Aware Multi-Robot Exploration, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. Thursday: X. Liu et al., Large-Scale Autonomous Flight With Real-Time Semantic SLAM Under Dense Forest Canopy, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 5512-5519, Apr. 2022. |
Final Project Status Reports |
Week 13, Nov 14 | Tuesday: Lanegger, M. Ruggia, M. Tognon, L. Ott, and R. Siegwart, Aerial Layouting: Design and Control of a Compliant and Actuated End-Effector for Precise In-flight Marking on Ceilings, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. Thursday: K. Zhang, Z. Hong, S. Xu, and S. Wang, CURL: Continuous, Ultra-compact Representation for LiDAR, presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems XVIII, Jun. 2022, vol. 18. |
All Article Reviews Due (Thursday) |
Week 14, Nov 21 Thanksgiving Weds-Fri |
Tuesday: How to give a talk talk Thursday: No Class |
Final Project Writeup Due (Tuesday) |
Week 15, Nov 28 | Tuesday: Review Videos in Class Thursday: No Class |
Final Project Videos Due (Tues) Final Project Article Reviews Due (Thurs) |
Week 16, Dec 5 | Tuesday: Presentations Thursday: Presentations |
Project Presentations (Tues, Thurs) and Final Writeup Revisions Due (Fri) |