Course Description

The material of the course will cover statistics based robot strategies and methods used for autonomous robot navigation. Topics will include a review of statistics, motion modeling, sensor modeling, localization, Kalman Filtering, Markov Localization, mapping, and SLAM-Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. A lab component will comprise of real world robot localization and mapping experiments involving an underwater robot in the campus swimming pool and in the ocean.

Click image to see video of our first deployment at the Cal Poly Center for Coastal Marine Science, Avila Beach Pier.

NEWS

Oct 22, 2008

Lab 3 is now due on Friday, Oct. 24. Lab 4 is now due Friday, Oct. 31.

 

Oct 1, 2008

We had our first ROV deployment on Sept 30. Check out the video above.

 

May 12, 2008

Welcome, the new course page is up and running!