A robot in a complex 3D CAD model (a power plant model)
It is expected that robots with some sort of intelligence will be a part of our lives in future. Many challenges are ahead of us to realize robots to be a part of our lives. In this course, we will consider issues of motion planning of real and virtual robots for various applications. We will focus more on virtual robots and their applications in games, movies, virtual prototyping, crowd simulations. We will go over basic materials related to motion planning and their applications.
What you will get at the end of the course:
What you will do:
# of lecture, date | Topics and slides | Related material(s) / Note(s) |
1, Sept - 1 (Th) | Overview on the course and course policy | Answers for repeatedly asked questions |
2, Sept - 6 (T) 3, Sept - 8 (Th) |
Path Planning for Point Robots | |
Sept - 13 (T) | No class (Chuseok) | |
4, Sept - 15 (Th) | Path Planning for Point Robots (updated slides) | PA1 (see the slide) email title format: [CS686] PA1_studentID |
5, Sept - 20 (T) | Configuration Space I | |
6, Sept - 22 (Th) | Configuration Space II | |
Sept - 27 (T) Sept - 29 (Th) |
No class (Attending IROS conference) (15 more class time extension as make-up in later classes | |
Oct - 4 (T) Oct - 6 (Th) |
Proximity queries | |
Oct - 11 (T) | Probabilisitc roadmaps | |
Oct - 13 (Th) Oct - 18 (T) | RRT and recent technologies | |
Oct - 20 (Th) | No class due to the exam period | |
Oct - 25 (T) | Mid-term exam | Grading results (Updated 10/27 15:00) |
Oct - 27 (Th) | Recent tech. | |
Nov - 1 (T) | Student presentation 1 (박효섭, 송재원) | Paper list of student presentations |
Nov - 3 (Th) | Student presentation 2 (김재우, 이종협) | |
Nov-8 (T) Nov-10 (Th) | No class (due to attending ICCV 2011) (15 min. more extensions to other classes as make-up classes | |
Nov - 15 (T) | Student presentation 3 (Nahiyan, Lin) | |
Nov - 17 (Th) | Mid-term project presentation Slides : 송재원 , 박효섭 , Nahiyan , Lin , 이웅희 , 김재우 , 이종협 | Project guidelines |
Nov - 22 (T) | External speaker (JungHwan Lee, Ph.D. candidate) | |
Nov - 24 (Th) | Student presentation 4 (박효섭, 이웅희) | |
Nov - 29 (T) | Student presentation 5 (Lin, 이종협) | |
Dec - 1 (Th) | Student presentation 6 (Nahiyan, 송재원) | |
Dec - 6 (T) | Student presentation 7 (이웅희, 김재우) | |
Dec - 13 (T) Dec - 15 (Th) |
No class | |
Dec - 22 (Th) | Final project presentation | Presentation order 김재우 박효섭 Nahiyan Lin 이웅희 이종협 송재원 |
For your presentations, please use the this powerpoint template; paper presentation guideline is available.
For your final report, please use the this latex template
Public software:
Possible project topics from Prof. Latombe's class
Previous course homepage: Fall09
Links to websites of some well-known researchers in motion planning
Paper search:
Acknowledgements: The course materials are based on those of Prof. Dinesh Manocha (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Prof. David Hsu (NUS). Thank you so much!
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