General InformationInstructor:Douglas Blank, 248 Park Science Building, 526-6501 Email: dblank (at) cs (dot) brynmawr (dot) edu Web: cs.brynmawr.edu/~dblank Office hours: Monday, Tuesday 10am - 11am, and by appointment. Lectures: Tues, 7:00pm - 9:00pm Lab: Park Science Building, room 232 Gradebook: Moodle Gradebook |
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This course will focus on all levels of humanoid robot control, from low-level image processing, to high-level team strategies. We will use the Luar system. Luar stands for Lua Universal Architecture for humanoid Robotics.
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Programming in Lua, second edition. |
We will use the program Calico Lua, a freely available language. We will also use Lua, the Kinect SDK, and a variety of open source software. These are all available on the Computer Science computers. You can also install Calico Python and these modules on your own computer.
| Week |
Topic |
Assignment |
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| Week 1: Aug 30 |
Overview of Course; Introduction to Lua |
Lab #1 Lua |
| Week 2: Sep 6 |
Luar Architecture, Finite State Machines | Lab #2: Lua FSM machines, Kinect, and Robocup Soccer |
| Week 3: Sep 13 |
Kinect SDK, Vision | Lab #3: Luar, Robocup Soccer, and Webots |
| Week 4: Sep 20 |
Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics | Lab #4 |
| Week 5: Sep 27 |
Learning, and Evolutionary Algorithms | Lab #5 |
| Week 6: Oct 4 |
C, Make, YUV, and ZMP | Lab #6: Demonstrate a Visualization, in teams |
| Week 7: Oct 11 |
No classes | Fall Break! |
| Week 8: Oct 18 |
Visualizations | Demonstrate your Visualization |
| Week 9: Oct 25 |
C/C++ libraries, compiling | Lab #8 |
| Week 10: Nov 1 |
Presentations of Human-controlled Controllers, Git | Lab #9 |
| Week 11: Nov 8 |
Project Proposals | Grace Hopper Celebration |
| Week 12: Nov 15 |
Present proposals, Low level Vision |
Work on Project |
| Week 13: Nov 22 |
Walking | Work on Project |
| Week 14: Nov 29 |
Projects | Work on Project |
| Week 15: Dec 6 |
Projects | Project Presentations |
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