Syllabus for

Robotics and Intelligent Systems

MAE 345, Fall 2013, Tuesday and Thursday, 3-4:20

J-201, Engineering Quadrangle

Robert F. Stengel

Princeton University
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Week    Tuesday                         Thursday
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1					1.  Overview and Preliminaries

2 	2.  Articulated Robots		3.  Coordinates and Transformations 

3 	4.  Mobile Robots, 		5.  Rigid-Body Dynamics
	    Personal Assistants, 
	    and Games 

4	6.  Time Response of		7.  Dynamic Effects of
	    Dynamic Systems		    Feedback Control 
      
5	8.  Analog and Digital		9.  Sensors and Actuators
	    Control Systems
 
6       10. Introduction to 		11. Least-Squares Estimation          
	    Optimization		    and Numerical Optimization

7	12. Monte Carlo Evaluation and	13. Dynamic Optimal Control
	    Evolutionary Algorithms

	MID-TERM BREAK
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8	14. Formal Logic, Algorithms, 	15. Computers, Computing, and Sets 	
	    and Incompleteness		    

9 	MID-TERM PROJECT PRESENTATION	16. Probability and Statistics
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10	17. Stochastic, Robust, and	18. Classification of Data Sets
	    Adaptive Control
	
11	19. Neural Networks - 1 	HOLIDAY
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12	20. Neural Networks - 2		21. Communication, Information,
					    and Machine Learning
	
13	22. Knowledge Representation	23. Task Planning and
	    	    			    Multi-Agent Systems		 			

	HOLIDAY BREAK
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	READING PERIOD
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	TERM PAPER DUE
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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 2011 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 June 17, 2013, stengel@princeton.edu.
Copyright (c) 2013 by Robert F. Stengel. All rights reserved.