Topics in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - 2009
Robot Building Lab and Competition
BGU Computer Science Department
Description of the course
This course is one of the mini-project courses, of which 2 are required
to meet the undergraduate project requirement. The goal here is to gain
hands-on experience in designing, constructing, and programming robots.
The project involves quite a bit of real-time programming issues,
as well as interface to sensors and actuators. The course
is heavily based on the MIT's
Autonomous Robot Design
Competition.
Students participating in the course will be working in groups of
4 people, where each group will design, construct, and program
a robot using the LEGO-based robot kit. Groups will then compete
in the robot competition near the end of the semester.
External participants can look for pictures of the Domain and Examples of Robots
Administrative Details and Online Material
- Course reference: 202-1-4261, web page
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~ami/teaching/AIproject_2009.html
- Credits: 2 (for participation + 125-150 work-hour project)
- Instructor:
Mr. Ami Berler
- Class hours: Sunday 17-19.
- Location:
- Week 1-2 - building 97 - room 2105).
- Weeks 3-13: at the "robotics" lab (Math-CS building,
room -107).
- Relevant books: Robot kit manual. Artificial intelligence
literature, e.g. Russel and Norvig, Introduction to AI.
- Requirements: attendance of initial session, participation
in all events. Timely submission of reports and partial products.
- Weeks 1, 2 ( November 16-November 23): introduction to material,
team formation (10%). Note:
failure to participate and/or select a team by November 23
forfeits this part of the grade.
- Weeks 6-8: robot basic
capability tests (30%).
- Weeks 12-13 :
competitions (60%). Every team must
participate in both the preliminary
rounds in week 12, and final rounds in week 13.
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