ECE 478/578/678 Intelligent Robotics I. MOBILE ROBOTS.

Professor: Marek A. Perkowski,
Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Intelligent Robotics Laboratory



The Intelligent Robotics Laboratory is located in Suite 70, Fourth Avenue Building (FAB).
The Industrial Robotics Laboratory is located in Room 30, Portland Center for Advanced Technology.

OFFICIAL SYLLABUS OF CLASSES.

  1. Official Syllabus of Winter (478/578/678) Robotics class.

ECE 478/578/678 CLASS IN FALL 2005.


Our Robot Theatre Interesting collection of papers on Robot Theatre
  1. Class Announcement.
  2. Information on grading and exams.
  3. Homeworks to be assigned in Fall 2005.
  4. Project to be assigned in Fall 2005. NEW!
  5. Various Interesting Lisp codes. Here are many excellent Lisp programs that you can use as a model, modify and improve.

  6. FULL LIST OF TOPICS THAT MAY BE PRESENTED IN FALL 2005 CLASS. This link includes material from Fall 2005 and some previous material not covered this year but useful in projects and in general robotics education. This material is not mandatory in its entirety. It is mandatory to read only those chapters that have been covered in the class. Look to the section below "Material covered in lectures in Fall 2005" to be aware what was really covered in every lecture.

  7. Material covered in lectures in Fall 2005. This material is updated with every lecture. Look to previous section for links to slides and papers.

  8. Topics for midterm in Fall 2005.

  9. Questions for midterm in Fall 2005.

  10. Important dates.
    1. Midterm. Lisp and search is the most important part.
    2. Presentation of projects completed. Last day for homeworks 1, 2, and 3.
  11. NEW INFORMATION ABOUT LISP. YOU CAN INSTALL ON YOUR PC. From Tzewen Wang.
  12. Work of students in Fall 2005.


CLASS MATERIAL FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.



  1. Class Announcement from Winter 2005.
  2. Information on grading and exams from Winter 2005.
  3. Homeworks from Winter 2005.
  4. Projects from Winter 2005.
  5. LIST OF TOPICS PRESENTED IN CLASS IN WINTER 2005. This link includes material from year 2005 and some previous material not covered this year but useful in projects and in general.
  6. Material covered in lectures in Winter 2005.
  7. Topics for midterm in Winter 2005.
  8. Question for midterm. 2005.
  9. Work of students in Winter 2005.
  10. Class materials for year 2004.
  11. Homeworks in 2004.
  12. Midterm Exams for year 2002.
  13. Midterm Exam PROBLEMS 1 to 10 from 2001.
  14. Midterm Exam PROBLEMS 11 to 20 from 2001.
  15. Home Pages of students and Projects Groups for 2002.
  16. Projects assigned in 1999.
  17. Projects assigned in 2000.
  18. New Projects in Robotics in 2000.
  19. Evolutionary Ideas
  20. Student Projects Received in 2001.
  21. Student projects from 2000

MANUALS AND INFORMATION ABOUT LABORATORY EQUIPMENT.

  1. PDF. Documentation of RT 3200 Seiko robot.
  2. Postscript. Manual of PCB machine. For those that will be designing Printed Circuit Boards.
  3. HTML. Information about C++ interface to OWI robot.

OTHER RECOMMENDED CLASSES FOR MY ROBOTICS STUDENTS.

  1. Artificial Life Class of Professor Martin Zwick in Spring 2002.
  2. Class of Professor Martin Zwick in Winter 2001.
  3. Class of Professor Martin Zwick in Winter 2001.

OTHER MEETINGS AND GROUPS RECOMMENDED FOR MY ROBOTICS STUDENTS.

  1. Portland Area Robotics Society

CAPSTONE PROJECTS RELATED TO ROBOTICS AND MULTIMEDIA.


These projects are related to robotics and internet multimedia.
  1. Capstone Projects 2001/2002
    1. Planar's Speech Recognition in High Noise.
  2. Capstone Projects 2000/2001
    1. Freightliner Polishing Robot. html.
    2. Lattice Analog FPGA board for robot. html.
    3. Lattice Mother FPGA board for robot. html.
  3. Capstone Projects 1999/2000
    1. Data Mining for Epidemiologists. html.
  4. Capstone Projects 1998/1999
    1. Intel Multimedia Project. html.
  5. Capstone Projects 1997/1998
    1. WWW Postcards Project. html.

ROBOTICS CLASSES IN OTHER UNIVERSITIES.


  1. Some interesting classes.
  2. Robots in Universities
  3. Curricula of Robotics classes.
  4. Proposed Curriculum PSU.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON ROBOTS.


May be helful in projects and self-education.
  1. Robot heads
  2. Walking Robots in Industry
  3. People and labs who work on walking robots.
  4. People and labs who work on humanoid robots.
  5. Various Interesting Robots and Projects.
  6. Other interesting robots.
  7. Robot Resources from 1999. YOU NEED PASSWORD TO ENTER THIS LINK.
  8. Servos.
  9. Some nice robots.