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:
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. Pleas 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
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
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. An exemption is the fall semester for 1st year bachelor students, the student administration will enroll this group.
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