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Instructors: Marc Bestmann; Shuang Li
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
IR - Sem
Hours per week:
2
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
English
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 40
Comments/contents:
The seminar is digital in WS 20/21.
This seminar focuses on both soft- and hardware in computer science and their application to robotics. Topics can be chosen almost freely from many fields, including e.g.
- Architectures: sense/plan/act, Subsumption, BDI, neural networks, ...
- Software architectures: ROS, Jadex, Player/Stage, MIRA, Microsoft Robotics Studio, ...
- Intelligent cars: motivation, technology, examples
- Sensors (laserscanners, ToF-cameras, structured light, omnivision, stereo vision, GNSS, ...)
- Human-robot-interaction
- Manipulation: arms, hands, compliance, tactile sensors, safety, ...
- Algorithms and datastructures: Spatial subdivision (Grids, Trees, ...), Kalman-Filters, SLAM, genetic algorithms, ...
- Surface reconstruction: ICP, Alpha-Shapes, Delaunay-Triangulation
- Motion planning: next-best-view, information gain, collision avoidance, A* and Dijkstra, potential fields, ...
- Control theory and practice: PID controllers, neural networks, ...
- Visualization and GPU computing: OpenGL, OpenCL, CUDA, examples, limitations, performance evaluation
Learning objectives:
The main goal of the seminar is to deepen the knowledge in selected, state of the art elements of intelligent robotics. The seminar is supposed to give the participants an insight to robot intelligence and the methods used in intelligent robotics. Further goals are:
- independent tackling of a scientific topic
- writing of a scientific report
- holding a oral presentation
- giving and receiving feedback
Didactic concept:
The seminar approach follows the typical procedure of a scientific publication. The students study a self-chosen topic in the field of intelligent robotics. During the drafting stage, a peer review process is done in which the students give and receive feedback.
The drafting phase consists of a oral presentation and a written report. The oral presentation includes a 25 minute talk with a follow up discussion and feedback round. The dimension of the written report is similar to a scientific conference paper. Presentation slides can be created using either PowerPoint or LaTeX, but the written report must be created using the latter. An introduction to LaTeX will be given at one of the first sessions.
Parallel participation of 64-424 is mandatory.
Additional examination information:
A successful participation in the seminar is required to complete the module successfully.
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