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Undergraduate Course: Intelligent Autonomous Robotics (Level 10) (INFR10005)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Informatics CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course explored the fundamental problems involved in producing real world intelligent behaviour in robots, covering the different information processing methods and control architectures that have been developed and are currently in use, including probabilistic methods and approaches inspired by biological systems. The course is structured around a practical task to develop navigation algorithms on a real robot platform.
Course description * The problem of designing intelligent autonomous systems.
* Reactive control of behaviour.
* The subsumption architecture.
* Sensor fusion.
* Control.
* Planning.
* Evolutionary and collective robotics.
* Robots as biological models.
* Simple navigation: gradient following, potential fields, landmarks.
* Navigation with maps: localisation and learning maps.

Relevant QAA Computing Curriculum Sections: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Information Systems Technologies
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Introduction to Vision and Robotics (INFR09019)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Robotics: Science and Systems (INFR11092)
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.

A good grounding in mathematics and some knowledge of first-order differential equations will be useful.
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesThis course is open to full year Visiting Students only, as the course is delivered in Semester 1 and examined at the end of Semester 2.
High Demand Course? Yes
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate familiarity with current robot control architectures by ability to choose the most appropriate method for a given robot task, to specify the components and interactions involved, and to design and programme an algorithm that solves the task.
  2. Identify and describe limitations of each architecture, particularly when applied to real robots interacting with the real world, rather than simulations.
  3. In written answers, describe and assess attempts to use robots to model biological systems.
  4. Write reports (in the form of journal papers) that explain in detail the implementation and evaluation of a robot performing a navigation task.
Reading List
* Valentino Braitenberg: Vehicles. MIT Press 1984
* Ronald C Arkin: Behavior-based Robotics, MIT press, 1998
* Robin R. Murphy: Introduction to AI Robotics, MIT Press, 2000
* Roland Siegwart, Illah R. Nourbakhsh and David Scaramuzza: Autonomous Mobile Robots. MIT Press 2011.
Additional Information
Course URL http://course.inf.ed.ac.uk/iar
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Barbara Webb
Tel: (0131 6)51 3453
Email: bwebb@inf.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Clara Fraser
Tel:
Email: clara.fraser@ed.ac.uk
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