lectures

Introduction to Visual Simulation Environment, Controlling a Robt using Game controller || ||   || Reactive vs. Hybrid Paradigm, Multi-Agents System, Swarm Robotics, Marsupial Robots, Characteristics of Multi-Agent Systems: Heterogeneity, Control, Communication and Goals, Social Entropy || ||   ||
 * ** S. # ** || ** Date ** || ** Day ** || ** Topics ** || ** Download ** || ** Comments ** ||
 * 1 || 5/9/2013 || Thursday || Course Outline and Objectives, Industrial vs. Service Robots,Growing Field of Robotics || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 1.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 2 || 10/9/2013 || Tuesday || Programming in VPL, Inputs, Outputs and Notifications, Use of Services (Timer, TextToSpeech, Dialog, etc.), Use of Activities (If-Else, Data, Variable, Calculate), Looping and Conditioning, Concurrent Programs || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 2.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 3 || 12/9/2013 ||  || Lab Session: Programs on Prime Number and Sum of Two Numbers,
 * 4 || 17/9/2013 ||  || Moving a Robot in different shapes (S, 8, Spiral, Square, etc.), || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 4.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 5 || 19/9/2013 || Thursday || Lego Mindstorms Building Activity ||  ||   ||
 * 6-7 || 24/9/2013 || Tuesday || Lego Connectivity through VPL, Setting up the Connections, Brick and Sensor Setting, Programs to Move Robots based on Ultrasonic and Light Sensors' Readings || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 5.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 8 || 19/9/2013 ||  || Introduction to Sensors, Proprioceptive vs. Exteroceptive Sensors, Active vs. Passive Sensors, Sonar Sensors and their Properties: Foreshortening, Specular Reflection and Cross-Talk, Bumper Sensors, Modern Day Sensors (GPS, Heading Sensors), Attributes of a Sensor || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 6.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 9 || 1/10/2013 ||  || Behavior-based robotics, Servo vs. Ballistic Behaviors, Finite State Machines ||   ||   ||
 * 10-11 || 3/10/2013 ||  || Sumo Competition: Robot Building and Programming ||   ||   ||
 * 12 || 22/10/2013 ||  || Behavior-based robotics, Servo vs. Ballistic Behaviors, Finite State Machines,
 * 13 || 24/10/2013 ||  || Starting with Ms. Pacman, Building first Pacman Controller || [[file:Unit 8 - Game Programming and Robotics.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 14 || 29/10/2013 ||  || Path Planning, Best-First, A* Search || [[file:Unit 9 - Game Programming and Robotics.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 15 || 31/10/2013 ||  || Implementing A* in Pacman || [[file:Unit 10 - Path Planning in Pacman.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 16 || 5/11/2013 ||  || Working with ghosts team in Pacman || [[file:Unit 11 -Ghosts in Pacman.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 17 || 7/11/2013 ||  || Intro to Kinect || [[file:Unit 12 - Kinect.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 18 || 19/11/2013 ||  || Pacman Competition ||   ||   ||
 * 19 || 21/11/2013 ||  || Kinect Programming - Handling power point navigation via hand gestures || [[file:Unit 13 - Programming with Kinect .pdf]] ||   ||
 * 20 || 3/12/2013 ||  || Handling power point navigation via hand gestures ||   ||   ||
 * 21 || 5/12/2013 ||  || Kinect based Mouse control ||   ||   ||
 * 22 || 10/12/2013 ||  || Kinect based Mouse control + Kinect Draw ||   ||   ||
 * 23 || 12/12/2013 || Thursday || Introduction to RoboCup, Introduction to Localization, Bayes Theorem, Prior vs. Posterior Belief, Exact vs. Inexact Motion, Measurement Update, Monte-Carlo Localization || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 14.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 24 || 17/12/2013 || Tuesday || Introduction to TinMan and RoboViz, Accessing Nao Joints in Simulation 3D Environment, Localization using Triangulation, Computation of Location and Orientation using Landmark Data || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 15.pdf]] ||  ||
 * 25 || 19/12/2013 || Thursday || RoboCup Lab ||  ||   ||
 * 26 || 26/12/2013 ||  || Partial Fourier Series (PFS) based Locomotion, Forward Walk and Turn Equations || [[file:Game Programming and Robotics Unit 16.pdf]] ||   ||
 * 27 || 31/12/2013 ||  || RoboCup Lab Session ||   ||   ||
 * 28 || 2/1/2014 ||  || Competition of RoboCup Challenge ||   ||   ||