(Student presentations available on Readings web page. Look under student presenter's name.)

Class 1: Tuesday, January 14

Lecture Notes, Jan. 14: Introduction/Overview

Class 2: Thursday, January 16

Lecture Notes, Jan. 16: Biological Inspirations

Assignment 1 (Out: Jan. 16; Due: Jan. 28): Download Nomad200 Simulator and example robot code. Note that this simulator runs under Solaris Unix (i.e., on a Sun SparcStation). Follow instructions from class handout to install this software and to complete the assigned exercises.

Class 3: Tuesday, January 21

Lecture Notes, Jan. 21: Swarming / Flocking / Schooling

Class 4: Thursday, January 23

Lecture Notes, Jan. 23: Key techniques for single autonomous robot control

(Class cancelled due to inclement weather.)

Class 5: Tuesday, January 28

Lecture Notes, Jan. 28: Metrics and Evaluation

Assignment 2 (Out: Jan. 28; Due: Feb. 6): Follow instructions from class handout.

Class 6: Thursday, January 30

Lecture Notes, Jan. 30: Wrap-up: Metrics and Evaluation; Part I: Search/Coverage.

(Student presentations available on Readings web page. Look under student presenter's name.)

Class 7: Tuesday, February 4

Lecture Notes, Feb. 4: Part II: Search/Coverage.

Class 8: Thursday, February 6

Lecture Notes, Feb. 6: Sensor Networks.

Class 9: Tuesday, February 11

Lecture Notes, Feb. 11: Communication in Multi-Robot Teams.

Class 10: Thursday, February 13

Exam #1

Assignment 3 (Out: Feb. 13; Due: Feb. 25): Follow instructions from class handout.

Class 11: Tuesday, February 18

Lecture Notes, Feb. 18: Formations in Multi-Robot Teams.

Assignment 2 Example Code (tar file) (unpack with unix command "tar xvf Assignment2_ex_code.tar")

Script for running 6 robots (required for Assignment #3) (plain text file)

Class 12: Thursday, February 20

Lecture Notes, Feb. 20: Herding.

Class 13: Tuesday, February 25

Lecture Notes, Feb. 25: Tracking.

Assignment 4 (Out: Feb. 25; Due: Mar. 6): Follow instructions from class handout.

Class 14: Thursday, February 27

Lecture Notes, Feb. 27: Reconfigurable Robots.

Class 15: Tuesday, March 4

Lecture Notes, Mar. 4: Reconfigurable Robots, Part II.

Class 16: Thursday, March 6

Lecture Notes, Mar. 6: Multi-Robot Path Planning and Multi-Robot Traffic Management.

Class 17: Tuesday, March 11

Lecture Notes, March. 11: Taxonomies.

Class 18: Thursday, March 13

Exam #2

Class 19: Tuesday, March 25

Lecture Notes, Mar. 25: The Contract Net Protocol.

Assignment 5 (Out: Mar. 25; Due: Apr. 8): Follow instructions from class handout.

Class 20: Thursday, March 27

Task Allocation -- Market Methods (no lecture notes; see student presentation). Tour of Distributed Intelligence Laboratory.