Postgraduate Course: Robot Learning and Sensorimotor Control (INFR11091)
Course Outline
School | School of Informatics |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | This course is designed as a follow up to the introductory course on Robotics: Science and Systems and will gear students towards advanced topics in robot control and planning from a machine learning perspective.
Control of complex, compliant, multi degree of freedom (DOF) sensorimotor systems like humanoid robots or autonomous vehicles have been pushing the limits of traditional planning and control methods.
This course aims at introducing a machine learning approach to the challenges and will take the students through various aspects involved in motor planning, control, estimation, prediction and learning with an emphasis on the computational perspective. We will learn about statistical machine learning tools and methodologies particularly geared towards problems of real-time, online learning for robot control.
Issues and possible approaches for learning in high dimensions, planning under uncertainty and redundancy, sensorimotor transformations and stochastic optimal control will be discussed. This will be put in context through exposure to topics in human motor control, experimental paradigms and the use of computational methods in understanding biological sensorimotor mechanisms. |
Course description |
The syllabus has will cover Machine Learning concepts relevant for Robotics, Adaptive and Learning Control, Planning and basics of Human Sensorimotor Control.
Machine Learning Tools for Robotics
- Regression in High Dimensions
- Dimensionality Reduction
- Online, incremental learning
- Multiple Model Learning
Adaptive Learning and Control
Predictive Control
Movement Primitives
- Rhythmic vs Point to Point Movements
- Dynamical Systems and DMPs
Planning and Optimization
- Stochastic Optimal Control (2)
- Bayesian Inference Planning
- RL, Apprenticeship Learning and Inverse Optimal Control
Understanding Human Sensorimotor Control
- Force Field and Adaptation
- Optimal control theory for Explaining Sensorimotor Behaviour
- Cue Integration and Sensorimotor Adaptation
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | This course is open to all Informatics students including those on joint degrees. For external students where this course is not listed in your DPT, please seek special permission from the course organiser.
Some prior exposure to robotics basics (such as Robotics: Science and Systems) and/or machine learning basics is recommended. A mathematical background is assumed. Programming will be required in an environment such as MATLAB. |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Lecture Hours 18,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
78 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
60 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
You should expect to spend approximately 24 hours on the coursework for this course.
If delivered in semester 1, this course will have an option for semester 1 only visiting undergraduate students, providing assessment prior to the end of the calendar year. |
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Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
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Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate knowledge of key areas of robot dynamics control and kinematic planning.
- analyze and evaluate conceptual and empirical problems in adaptive control and robot learning.
- analyze and implement a subset of established learning algorithms in dynamics learning and stochastic optimal control;
- demonstrate understanding of issues related to optimality in human motor control; develop ability to frame human motor control problems in an optimization framework.
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Reading List
Howie Choset, Kevin M Lynch, Seth Hutchinson and George Kantor, Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations
Mark W. Spong, Seth Hutchinson and M. Vidyasagar, Robot Modeling and Control
Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard and Dieter Fox, Probabilistic Robotics
Sciliano, Khatib (ed.) Springer Handbook of Robotics |
Contacts
Course organiser | Prof Sethu Vijayakumar
Tel: (0131 6)51 3444
Email: sethu.vijayakumar@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Katey Lee
Tel: (0131 6)50 2701
Email: Katey.Lee@ed.ac.uk |
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