Syllabus for

Robotics and Intelligent Systems

MAE 345, Fall 2009, 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 	Rigid-Body Dynamics		Mobile Robots, 			
					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	Nonlinear and Robust Control 
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10	MID-TERM ORAL PRESENTATION	HOLIDAY
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11	Machine Learning		Expert Systems

12	Classification of Data Sets	Introduction to Neural Networks
	
13	Training Neural Networks	Task Planning and 
					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 the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Virtual Textbook and in Lecture Slides. Current course materials and assignments will be posted on Blackboard at Princeton. Lecture materials for the 2007 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 October 29, 2009, stengel@princeton.edu.
Copyright (c) 2009 by Robert F. Stengel. All rights reserved.