Autonomous Mobile Robots 2014

Spring semester.

Lecture:

Material:

The majority of the material is found in this book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/introduction-autonomous-mobile-robots. The course was also on https://www.edx.org/, so there was a lot of material there, including videocasts and problem sheets. The course in general gives a nice introduction to different aspects of Mobile Robotics. However, in order to understand the concepts well enough to implement them or to go further, it was necessary to read things outside of the lecture. A lot of proofs and theoretical results are omitted, most formulas were not derived and the ones that were, their proof/derivation appealed to intuition rather than a rigorous approach. In terms of algorithms, they are rather well stated. There was a lot of information on state of the art research and projects.

Exam:

Oral exam that lasts 30 minutes. Professors give a very detailed list of examinable topics (around ~70 questions). The format is pretty standardized, the first question is about application - describing a certain type of mobile robot (in terms of locomotion, sensory system, localisation system, etc). Then there are two theoretical questions about the course.