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CS405: Artificial Intelligence

Unit 8: Robotics
Robotics draws upon and integrates previous topics, as well as information and techniques from other disciplines, including many engineering fields, physics, controls, probability and statistics, differential equations, linguistics, and many applications, e.g., manufacturing, sensors, medical applications, etc. Some of the contributions of AI to robotics are search algorithms, representation and models for the robot world, inference, learning, and AI programming features and their integration.

Completing this unit should take you approximately 9 hours.
- Unit 8 Learning Outcomes Page
- 8.1: Introduction and Overview of Robotics
  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Harry Asada and John Leonard's "Introduction to Robotics" URL
    Read this section, which gives a mechanical engineering perspective on robotics.
  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Daniela Rus' "Introduction to Robotics" URL
    Read this overview of the history of robots, definitions in robotics, and a less mechanically-oriented perspective on robotics.
- 8.2: Positioning, Vision, Planning, and Control
  - Stanford University: Oussama Khatib's "Introduction to Robotics" Page
    Watch these lectures.
- 8.3: Practical Software and System Process for Robotic Applications
  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Seth Teller's "System Engineering and Testing Strategies" URL
    Read these slides, which address systems issues in robotics applications.