Lab Course Mobile Robots (MA-INF 4310)
Dr. Nils Goerke
Wednesdays 13-17, (date can be re-arranged)
Room I.42a, Friedrich-Ebert-Alle 144.
Preparation meeting and start: Wednesday 21.10.2015, 15:15, I.42a
Subject:
The lab course will introduce some basic state-of-the-art building blocks of mobile robotics using simulations and
and our teaching and research platform RoomRider.
The lab course is organized in two parts:
Part 1 Experiments: a series of experiments to learn and practice basic building blocks of mobile robotics
with a state of the art robot control environment and our teaching and research platform RoomRider.
Part 2 Mini Projects: chose a state-of-the task for a mobile robot, pick or develop an algorithm to solve that
task and implement it using the RoomRider mobile robot platform.
You will work in 2 person groups doing the experiments and implementing the mini-project. The programming language is C++
(Java and Python access to the control system is under construction).
The lab course will cover in parts:
robotic sensors, robotic actuators, robot control schemes, robot
control software, simulators, middleware, reactive control,
localisation, navigation, path planning, map making, some computer
vision, cooperative robots, swarming behavior, multi robotics.
Literature:
Most literature will be provided during the lab course.
You may find the following literature interesting:
S.Thrun, W.Burgard and Dieter Fox: "Probabilistic Robotics", MIT Press, 2006
G.Bekey: "Autonomous Robots, From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control", MIT Press, 2005
J.Buchli (eds.): "Mobile Robots - Moving Intelligence", Publised by Advanced Robotic Sytems International Verlag, 2006
The teaching and research robot: RoomRider