CIS 400 Special Topics in Computer Systems - Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Spring 1998
Link Hall 263
Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 - 9:45

Instructor: D. Paul Benjamin

Announcements:

None yet.

Info:

Here is a page with LEGO construction examples.
There is also the MIT 6.270 course page.
Text: There is no text for this course. The 6.270 manual is an unofficial text. You can either make a copy of my copy at your expense, or use the online copy. There should be ten hardcopies of this manual distributed in class; this is one per robot. Two or three students are assigned to each robot. We will be using the 6.270 robot kit from MIT, which is very similar to (but more powerful than) the Rug Warrior robot described in the book "Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation" by Jones and Flynn. You don't need to buy a copy. I'm just mentioning it in case you've got money to burn and want a copy. If so, you can order a copy from the Robot Store web site below.

Here are some pages: an Internet robot resources page, and another robot resources page , some info on hobby robots, the USENET robotics FAQ, and the comp.robotics.misc FAQ.

Here is the syllabus describing what has been covered so far.

Here are the robot programs mentioned and demonstrated in class.

Here's a page you may find to be of help with building a robot.

There was a short version of this course run at the AAAI conference recently. Two of the participants, Carl Kadie and Jeffrey Graham, wrote reports of their experiences. These might prove helpful in designing robots. Here's a bunch of various information that might help, including:

Some interesting pointers