Course Reader (.pdf) [Last updated 10/26, 8:26 pm]
| Date | Topic | Recordings & Notes | MP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug-23 | Overview, State Machines, Safety Analysis | slides | MP0 out |
| 2 | Aug-25 | End-to-end Safety 1 Automata, executions, requirements, safety, Post, invariance | slides | |
| 3 | Aug-26, Fri | Lab Introductions, Team Formation, MP0 Walkthrough | ||
| 4 | Aug-30 | End-to-end Safety 2 Invariance, inductive invariants, applications. | slides notes annotated notes | |
| 5 | Sept-1 | Perception basics Linear filtering, convolution, de-noising | slides | MP1 out |
| 6 | Sept 2, Fri | Lab MP1 Walkthrough | ||
| 7 | Sept-6 | Autonomous vehicle platform demo and field trip | slides | |
| 8 | Sept 8 | Perception 2 Edge detection, image gradients, recognition, classification | slides | |
| 9 | Sept 9, Fri | Lab | MP0 due | |
| 10 | Sept-13 | Perception Basics | slides | |
| 11 | Sept-15 | Perception Basics | MP2 out | |
| 12 | Sept 16, Fri | Lab MP2 Walkthrough | ||
| 13 | Sept-20 | Control 1 ODEs, Vehicle Models | notes slides | |
| 14 | Sept-22 | Control 2 ODEs, Vehicle Models | notes1 notes2 | |
| 15 | Sept 23, Fri | Lab | MP1 due | |
| 16 | Sept-27 | Control 3 Stability, Lyapunov theory, invariance | notes slides | |
| 17 | Sept-29 | Review session Software project overview | ||
| 18 | Sept 30, Fri | Lab | ||
| 19 | Oct 4, Tue | Midterm 1 | ||
| 20 | Oct-6 | Filtering Bayes filter, histogram filter, grid localization, Particle filter and monte carlo localization | slides notes | |
| 21 | Oct 7, Fri | Lab | MP2 due | |
| 22 | Oct-11 | Filtering Continued Particle filter and monte carlo localization, | ||
| 23 | Oct-13 | Filtering Continued Particle filter and monte carlo localization | slides notes | MP3 out |
| 24 | Oct 14, Fri | Lab MP3 Walkthrough | ||
| 25 | Oct 18 | Filtering Continued Particle filter and monte carlo localization, Kalman filter and SLAM overview | slides | |
| 26 | Oct-20 | SLAM, Planning Uninformed search | ||
| 27 | Oct 21, Fri | |||
| 28 | Oct-25 | Project Pitch Presentations | ||
| 29 | Oct-27 | Planning Greedy search, A*, hybrid A* | notes | |
| 30 | Oct 28, Fri | Lab | MP3 due | |
| 31 | Nov-1 | Guest lecture -Bowen Weng, VTRC. | flyer video | |
| 32 | Nov-3 | Planning Sampling-based, RRT, RRT* | notes | |
| 33 | Nov 4, Fri | Lab | ||
| 34 | Nov-8 | No Class Election Day | ||
| 35 | November 10, Thu | Midterm 2 | ||
| 36 | Nov 11, Fri | Lab Project Huddle | ||
| 37 | Nov-15 | Planning Sampling-based, RRT, RRT* | ||
| 38 | Nov-17 | Course wrap-up Intermediate check-in | ||
| 39 | Nov 18, Fri | Lab | ||
| 40 | Nov 22, Tue | Fall Break | ||
| 41 | Nov 24, Thu | Fall Break | ||
| 42 | Nov 25, Fri | Fall Break | ||
| 43 | Nov-29 | Practice Presentation | ||
| 44 | Dec-1 | Project Presentations | ||
| 45 | Dec 2, Fri | |||
| 46 | Dec 6, Tue | Project Presentations Final Project Video Upload | Final Project video due |