Study Guide@lith
 

Linköping Institute of Technology

 
 
Valid for year : 2017
 
TDDE05 AI Robotics, 6 ECTS credits.
/AI-robotik/

For:   D   IT   U  

 

Prel. scheduled hours:
Rec. self-study hours: 160

  Area of Education: Technology

Main field of studies: Computer Engineering, Computer Science

  Advancement level (G1, G2, A): A

Aim:
The aim of this course is to give an overview of the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques for robotic systems, through the use of simulated robot, actual hardware and widely used software packages, such as the Robot Operating System (ROS). The main focus of the course is for student to learn how the different components that constitute a robot: perception, control and deliberation interact with each other to form an autonomous system, the course will have an emphasis on how such a system take decision to accomplish its goals.
After the course, the student will be able to:
  • to list and explain important problems and techniques in the area of AI robotics,
  • to use existing frameworks to develop an autonomous robot, and
  • to design, implement and evaluate the algorithms needed to provide autonomous functionality to a robot in a simulated environment, and
  • to transpose simulated tests to actual hardware, and
  • to make written and oral presentations of their work.


Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
An introductory AI course, Object-oriented programming (preferably in C++ or Python.)

Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.

Supplementary courses:
Automated Planning, Sensor fusion, Computer Vision, Control Theory, Multi-Agents.

Organisation:
Through a serie of labs (~1 month), the students develop/integrate basic robotic functionality, so that in the end, it is a system that can move, avoid obstacle and take basic decision. The system will be improved during the project phase. Each student pick a topic related to AI Robotic (among a selected list of topics), implement and evaluate the algorithm, and write a report, with a description of the algorithm. Students are expected to present their individual work during a seminar and during a group seminar they will present their robotic system. During a lab session, they should demonstrate to the assistant the functionalities of their robot. Students work in group of 5-6.
The course runs over the entire spring semester.


Course contents:
Perception and Scene Interpretation. Navigation: Localisation and path planning Autonomy and Levels of autonomy. Control and Decision-Making. Behavior-based robotics. Robotic Programming. Reactive, Deliberative and Hybrid robot architectures. Human-Robot Interraction

Course literature:
Introduction to AI Robotics, Robin R. Murphy, The MIT Press, 2000
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh and Davide Scaramuzza, The MIT Press, 2011


Examination:
Laboratory work
Project assignmet
2 ECTS
4 ECTS
 



Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: Peter Dalenius
Examiner: Cyrille Berger

Course Syllabus in Swedish

Linköping Institute of Technology

 


Contact: TFK , val@tfk.liu.se
Last updated: 12/19/2016