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Autonomous Mobile Robots 2011

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    • Overview

    • Lecturer: Dr. Roland Reichle
    • Tutors: Dominik Kirchner and Stephan Opfer
    • Language: German and English
    • Times: Lecture Thursday 16:30-18:00, Exercise Friday 12:00-13:30
    • Rooms:
      • Due to the terrible conditions in R1332, the lectures take place in the conference room of the Distributed Systems department.
      • The exercises take place in the students laboratory of the Distributed Systems department.
    • Assignment to the curriculum: Bachelor of Computer Science - area of application: robotics
    • Teaching methods: 4 contact hours (2 lecture, 2 exercise)
    • Credit points: 6
    • Qualifications: foundations in computer science
    • Learning objectives/expertises: Understanding of the foundations, concepts and implementations of autonomous mobile robots.
    • Course achievements: exercises, small project and examination
    • Media: Slides and literature

    Content: This lectures tackles the foundations of autonomous mobile robots. The topics are hardware components, sensors and actors, software-architectures, world modelling, communication and middleware, behaviour engine, etc.

    Literature

    Primary:

    • Peter Norvig and Stuart Russel: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 2003 (German version at Pearson Studium).
    • Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox: Probabilistic Robotics, MIT Press, 2005.
    • Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh: Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, MIT Press, 2004.

    Supplementary:

    • Michael J. Wooldridge: An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems, Wiley & Sons, 2002.
    • Ron Arkin: Behavior-Based Robotics, MIT Press, 1998
    • Robin Murphy: Introduction to AI Robotics, MIT Press, 2000.
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