A new 500 level elective
A robotics project course. This will count as an approved elective.
The purpose of this project course, entirely based on a single (for the semester's duration) student-group
selected project, is to explore various capabilities of terrestrial robots and UAVs, realized by the
processing of visual data from onboard cameras (and detection sonars as appropriate). These include
but are not limited to obstacle detection and avoidance, free/safe-path localization, road following,
target localization and identification, traffic assessment, hazardous material or debris detection, etc.
These will be caried out by teams of about 3 students (based on enrollment).
each group would pick and employ a suitable platform, personally owned or from other ongoing research
activities, to acquire data and implement algorithms to perform tasks based on desired capabilities.
Pre-requisitess: basic calculus (differentiation, e.g., for maxima-minima computation) and some basic
knowledge of linear algebra (e.g., matrix and vector operations, solution of linear equations).
We need to have an enrollment (gu)estimate for viability. If you have any level of interest:
would definitely take it, would be likely to tkae it, might perhaps take it (no need to tell
me if you are not interested at all) very soon. The timing of this is critical.