Syllabus for

Robotics and Intelligent Systems

MAE 345, Fall 2011, Tuesday and Thursday, 3-4:20

J-201, Engineering Quadrangle

Robert F. Stengel

Princeton University
School of Engineering and Applied Science 


Robotics and Intelligent Systems

Week    Tuesday                         Thursday
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1					Overview and Preliminaries

2 	Articulated Robots		Coordinates and Transformations 

3 	Mobile Robots, 			Rigid-Body Dynamics
	Personal Assistants, 
	and Games 

4	Dynamic Systems		 	Sensors and Actuators 
      
5	Dynamic Effects of		Analog and Digital	
	Feedback Control		Control Systems
 
6       Introduction to Optimization	Optimal Control          
	
7	Least-Squares Estimation	Monte Carlo Evaluation and
	and Numerical Optimization	Evolutionary Algorithms

	MID-TERM BREAK
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8	Formal Logic and		Predicate Calculus;		
	Computing			1st-order Logic, and Fuzzy Sets 

9 	Probability and Statistics	Multivariate Statistics and 
					Stochastic Control
						
10	MID-TERM ORAL PRESENTATION	HOLIDAY
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11	Stochastic, Robust, and 	Classification of Data Sets
	Adaptive Control		

12	Neural Networks - 1 		Neural Networks - 2
	
13	Machine Learning and		Task Planning and
	Knowledge Representation	Multi-Agent Systems		 			

	HOLIDAY BREAK
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	READING PERIOD
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	END-OF-TERM PAPER PRESENTATION
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Reference Materials

All reading material for the course is accessible on the Internet, much of it compiled in Robotics and Intelligent Systems: A Virtual Textbook and in the lecture slides. Current course materials and assignments are posted on Blackboard at Princeton. Lecture materials for the 2009 course offering can be found at Lecture Slides.

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MAE 345, Robotics and Intelligent Systems

http://www.princeton.edu/~stengel/MAE345Out.html
key words: robotics, intelligent systems, control systems, robot vehicles, industrial robots, optimization, numerical methods, neural networks, expert systems, task planning, Monte Carlo evaluation
last updated December 8, 2011, stengel@princeton.edu.
Copyright (c) 2011 by Robert F. Stengel. All rights reserved.