15-494 Cognitive Robotics
Spring 2013
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15-494 Cognitive Robotics

Spring 2013


Professor:
David S. Touretzky
GHC 9013
Phone: x8-7561
dst@cs.cmu.edu
         Teaching Assistant:
Mark Perez
mmperez@andrew.cmu.edu

Times and Locations

Lecture: Mon/Wed 3:30 to 4:20 in GHC 4101
Lab: Fri 3:00 to 4:20 in NSH 3206 (Robotics Education Lab, Newell-Simon Hall, x8-5561)

Lecture Schedule and Syllabus

 
Course home page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15494-s13

List of lab machines, and ssh instructions: see Homeworks page

Summary

Cognitive robotics is a new approach to robot programming based on high level primitives for perception and action. These primitives draw inspiration from ideas in cognitive science combined with state of the art robotics algorithms. Students will experiment with these primitives and help develop new ones using the Tekkotsu software framework on the Calliope robot, which includes a 5 degree-of-freedom arm with gripper, a Kinect camera on a pan/tilt mount, and Ubuntu Linux on a dual-core on-board netbook. Prior robotics experience is not necessary, but strong programming skills are required.

Final projects from 2011 (partial), 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007 (Cool stuff!)

Robots for Everyone by CMU alum Ali Spagnola