Week Date Topic Slides Related Videos Exercise Info Project Info
1 Sept 7 First class
2 Sept 12 Introduction to Autonomous Vehicles A Broad Perspective on AVs Video from 2020
2 Sept 14 Tools Video from 2020 Start Ex. 1 - Setup (due Sept. 25)
3 Sept 19 Canceled
3 Sept 21 Software Engineering Architectures and Engineering Video from 2020 Present project details. [slides] [form]
4 Sept 26 Representations Representations [pdf notes] Video from 2020 Start Ex. 2 - Control (due Oct. 9) Announce project groups
4 Sept 28 Modeling Modeling Video from 2020 Present student seminar details
5 Oct 3 ELECTION (canceled)
5 Oct 5 Robot Control Control Video from 2020 pt. 1 and pt. 2
6 Oct 10 THANKSGIVING
6 Oct 12 Projective Geometry Projective Geometry Video from 2020 Start Ex. 3 - Perception (due Oct. 30) Present the Preliminary design report (template)
7 Oct 17 Image Processing Image Processing
7 Oct 19 Filtering and State Estimation State Estimation Video from 2020
8 Oct 24-29 READING WEEK Start Ex. 4 - State Estimation (due Nov. 13)
9 Oct 31 Deep Learning Perception Deep Learning Perception
9 Nov 2 Motion Planning Planning
10 Nov 7 Intro to RL for Robotics (Glen Berseth) Deep RL Present the critical design report (template)
10 Nov 9 RL (Part 2) Policy iteration and sim-to-real
11 Nov 14 Guest Lecture (Steven Parkison) Point Clouds
11 Nov 16 Imitation Learning (+ catchup) Imitation Learning
Uncertainty in Deep Learning 		Start Ex. 5 - Planning (due Dec. 31)
12 Nov 21 Kalman Filters (James Forbes) Kalman Filters
12 Nov 23 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping SLAM Start Ex 6 - End-to-end (due Dec. 31)
13 Nov 28 Student Seminars Karla, Guillaume, Michel, Alexandre Seminar feedback form
13 Nov 30 Student Seminars Ria, Ala, Mark, Weigan Seminar feedback form
14 Dec 5 Student Seminars Cyrille, Antoine, Nissam, Soma Seminar feedback form
14 Dec 7 Student Seminars Rakshit, Kaustubh, Mahtab, Abdalwhab Seminar feedback form
Dec 14 Final Demo Final project report (due Dec. 31)

The class schdule from last year