Course Schedule

WEEK DATES TOPICS SLIDES/READINGS ASSIGNMENTS
1 Mon 08/26
Wed 08/28
Lecture: Sensing, Planning, Actuation Loop
Lecture: Project Pragmatics
2 Mon 09/02
Wed 09/04
Labor Day - no classes
Lecture: Growing Plants

A1 Out
3 Mon 09/09
Wed 09/11
Lecture: Planning
Lecture: Scheduling

A1 Due, A2 Out
4 Mon 09/16
Wed 09/18
Lecture: Temporal Planning
Lecture: Single Agent Architectures

5 Mon 09/23
Wed 09/25
Lecture: Multi-Agent Architectures
Lecture: Monitoring and Error Recovery

A2 Due
6 Mon 09/30
Wed 10/02
Lecture: State Estimation
Lecture: Exam Review
Grow Period A Begins
Take Home Exam
7 Mon 10/07
Wed 10/09
Lecture: Optimization
Guest Lecture
A3 Out
8 Mon 10/14
Wed 10/16
Fri 10/18
Lecture: MDPs/POMDPs
Lecture: MDPs/POMDPs
Midsemester Break Friday - no classes



9 Mon 10/21
Wed 10/23
Thur 10/24
Lecture: Verification and Testing
Guest Lecture
Grow Period A ends

A3 Due A4 Out
10 Mon 10/28
Wed 10/30
Grow Period A presentations
Exam 2

11 Mon 11/04
Wed 11/06
Thur 11/07
Lecture: Human-in-the-Loop Execution
Lecture: Active Learning
Grow Period B begins

A4 Due, A5 Out
12 Mon 11/11
Wed 11/13
Lecture: Explanation
Lecture: Trust and other Metrics


13 Mon 11/18
Wed 11/20
Thur 11/21
Lecture: Case Studies
Guest Lecture: Ethics
Grow Period B ends
14 Mon 11/25
Wed 11/27
Grow Period B Presentations
Thanksgiving - no classes

15 Mon 12/02
Wed 12/04
Assignment 5 Presentations
Assignment 5 Presentations
A5 Due

  Finals Period