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e11 - Autonomous Vehicles

Administrative

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Instructors

Dr. Christopher Clark

Email: clark AT hmc.edu

office: Parsons 2376

Dr. Brian Bryce

Email: bbryce AT hmc.edu

office: Parsons 2364

Dr. Jason Marshall

Email: jmarshall AT hmc.edu

office: Parsons 2381

Proctors - Lab Section 1, Mondays 1:00-4:00pm

Prof. Marshall, jmarshall AT hmc.edu

Jesus Solano, asolano AT g.hmc.edu

Proctors - Lab Section 2, Mondays 6:00-9:00pm

Prof. Marshall, jmarshall AT hmc.edu

Jenny Lee, jelee AT g.hmc.edu

Proctors - Lab Section 3, Tuesdays 1:00-4:00pm

Prof. Clark, clark AT hmc.edu

Aomsin Pongpiriyakarn , apongpiriyakarn AT g.hmc.edu

Proctors - Lab Section 4, Tuesdays 6:00-9:00pm

Prof. Bryce, bbryce AT gmail.com

Trevor Fung, tfung AT g.hmc.edu

Grutors

Kayla Yamada, kyamada AT g.hmc.edu

Shiv Seetharaman, sseetharaman AT g.hmc.edu

Lecture

location: Shan 2460

time: Mondays, Wednesdays 11:00-11:50am

Lab

location: Parsons B173

time: Mondays 1:00-4:00pm, 6:00-9:00pm, Tuesdays 1:00-4:00pm, 6:00-9:00pm

Grading

E11 is offered on a pass/fail basis. To pass the class, you are expected to:

   1. Regularly attend class and lab

   2. Complete all but one of the weekly labs

   3. Complete all but one of the homework assignments

   4. Deploy an operational autonomous vehicle to play Capture the Flag

   5. Make a presentation about your vehicle

   6. Complete a final report documenting your vehicle

Textbooks

No text is required, but here are some graduate level textbooks:

   1. "An introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots", Roland Siegwart and Illah R. Nourbakhsh, MIT Press 2004.

   2. "Autonomous Robots: From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control", George A. Bekey, MIT Press, 2005.

   3. &"Probabilistic Robotics", Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, and Dieter Fox, MIT Press, 2005.

   4. "Behavior-Based Robotics", Ronald C. Arkin, MIT Press 1998.

   5. "Principles of Robot Motion", Howie Choset, Kevin M. Lynch, Seth Hutchinson, George Kantor, Wolfram Burgard, Lydia E. Kavraki, and Sebastian Thrun, MIT Press, 2005.

 

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