Admission requirements
Not applicable.
Description
During the last decade we have seen an "explosion" of all kinds of robots designed for tasks that previously were deemed too challenging for machines. Robots have evolved from robotic arms and karts that could execute repetitive or simple tasks such as painting, welding and vacuum cleaning to autonomous cars, drones and humanoid helpers and servants that execute their tasks in much less controlled and even natural settings. For this modern robots require sophisticated adaptive capabilities.
During the course we will have a thorough look at the important aspects of robot-architectures used in modern and state of the art robots. The use of various actuators and sensors will be studied. Algorithms for low level tasks such as movement, dead reckoning, obstacle-detection, and balancing will be presented. Intermediate level tasks such as mapping, obstacle recognition and avoidance, and more advanced modes of reckoning, navigation and object manipulation will be studied. Finally, high level tasks such as human-robot-interaction and adaptive behavior in natural environments will be studied and proto-typed using state of the art sensor analysis, computer vision and audio recognition techniques.
Course objectives
After successfully finishing the Robotics course the student:
Is able to explain and apply the underlying methods, architectures and operating systems of modern state of the art robotic platforms.
Is capable of designing, developing, implementing, analysing and evaluating algorithms for low-, and mid-level robotic tasks on different robotic simulators and platforms.
Is able to explain, analyse and evaluate the challenges and progress in robotics research.
Is able to design and implement high level robotic tasks using state of the art tools for sensor analysis, computer vision and audio recognition techniques.
Is capable of creating, implementing and evaluating a prototype for autonomous robotics tasks such as visual understanding and autonomous actuation or driving, Human Robot Interaction, etc.
Timetable
The most recent timetable can be found at the Computer Science (MSc) student website.
You will find the timetables for all courses and degree programmes of Leiden University in the tool MyTimetable (login). Any teaching activities that you have sucessfully registered for in MyStudyMap will automatically be displayed in MyTimeTable. Any timetables that you add manually, will be saved and automatically displayed the next time you sign in.
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For more information, watch the video or go the the 'help-page' in MyTimetable. Please note: Joint Degree students Leiden/Delft have to merge their two different timetables into one. This video explains how to do this.
Mode of instruction
Lectures
Projects
Workshops
Student discussions
Presentations
Homework and assignments
Course load
Hours of study: 168 (= 6 EC)
Lectures: 26
Practical work: 72
Other (self-study): 70
Assessment method
The final grade is based on:
Homework Assignments (Pass/No Pass; to obtain a sufficient grade for the course the Homework Assignments should have a Pass)
2 workshops (each 10% of the final grade, totalling 20% of the final grade)
Mobile Robot Challenge (20% of the grade)
Robotics Project (60% of the grade)
The teacher will inform the students how the inspection of and follow-up discussion of the work will take place.
Reading list
Conferences and journals on Robotics.
Registration
From the academic year 2022-2023 on every student has to register for courses with the new enrollment tool MyStudyMap. There are two registration periods per year: registration for the fall semester opens in July and registration for the spring semester opens in December. Please see this page for more information.
Please note that it is compulsory to both preregister and confirm your participation for every exam and retake. Not being registered for a course means that you are not allowed to participate in the final exam of the course. Confirming your exam participation is possible until ten days before the exam.
Extensive FAQ's on MyStudymap can be found here.
Contact
Lecturer: dr Erwin M. Bakker
Assistent: To be announced.
Website: Robotics