Admission requirements
Not applicable.
Description
Cognitive robotics is the study of building robots that show intelligent behavior. Cognitive robotics emphasizes the emergence or learning of intelligence, instead of preprogramming robot behavior. This course will discuss the history of cognitive robotics (e.g. embedded cognition, subsumption architectures, Braitenberg's Vehicles, neural controllers, reality gap), the discipline's theoretical background (e.g. the importance of representations, the role of the environment), and students will gain hands-on experience with designing and programming robots of increasing complexity.
Course objectives
Students can explain how cognitive robotics differs from other disciplines in robotics, and know advantages and disadvantages of the different disciplines in robotics.
Students can design and implement different controllers and basic feedforward and feedback architectures.
Students can systematically analyze the behavior of a robot and document their findings in a lab report.
Students can critically appraise a topic in cognitive robotics and write an academic paper on it.
Timetable
The most updated version of the timetables can be found on the students' website:
In MyTimetable, you can find all course and programme schedules, allowing you to create your personal timetable. Activities for which you have enrolled via MyStudyMap will automatically appear in your timetable.
Additionally, you can easily link MyTimetable to a calendar app on your phone, and schedule changes will be automatically updated in your calendar. You can also choose to receive email notifications about schedule changes. You can enable notifications in Settings after logging in.
Questions? Watch the video, read the instructions, or contact the ISSC helpdesk.
Note: Joint Degree students from Leiden/Delft need to combine information from both the Leiden and Delft MyTimetables to see a complete schedule. This video explains how to do it.
Mode of instruction
The course consists of 14 lectures and 14 lab sessions. Students will write four lab reports in groups, and will individually write a paper.
Assessment method
The final grade for this course is a weighted average of:
three best out of four group lab reports (50%)
an individual paper on a topic in cognitive robotics (50%)
The lecturer will inform students about the review of the assessments. There is an opportunity to re-sit one lab report, which will have a maximum grade of 6.0. Students can also re-sit the individual paper with the same limitation. Students can only re-sit grades lower than 5.5.
Reading list
Capita selecta.
Registration
As a student, you are responsible for enrolling on time through MyStudyMap.
In this short video, you can see step-by-step how to enrol for courses in MyStudyMap.
Extensive information about the operation of MyStudyMap can be found here.
There are two enrolment periods per year:
Enrolment for the fall opens in July
Enrolment for the spring opens in December
See this page for more information about deadlines and enrolling for courses and exams.
Note:
It is mandatory to enrol for all activities of a course that you are going to follow.
Your enrolment is only complete when you submit your course planning in the ‘Ready for enrolment’ tab by clicking ‘Send’.
Not being enrolled for an exam/resit means that you are not allowed to participate in the exam/resit.
Contact
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Software
Starting from the 2024/2025 academic year, the Faculty of Science will use the software distribution platform Academic Software. Through this platform, you can access the software needed for specific courses in your studies. For some software, your laptop must meet certain system requirements, which will be specified with the software. It is important to install the software before the start of the course. More information about the laptop requirements can be found on the student website.