This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
All Slides will be posted on Canvas
| DATE | DAY | LECTURE TITLE | INSTRUCTOR | RECORDING | SLIDES | HW RELEASE | HW DUE DATES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/5/2026 | Monday | Introduction and Course Overview | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/7/2026 | Wednesday | Anatomy of an Autonomous Vehicle | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/9/2026 | Friday | Recursive Bayes Filtering | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/12/2026 | Monday | Motion and Observation Models | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/14/2026 | Wednesday | Motion Models + Kalman Filtering | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/16/2026 | Friday | Kalman Filtering | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/19/2026 | Monday | Martin Luther King Jr. Day (- no lecture -) | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/21/2026 | Wednesday | Particle Filter | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/23/2026 | Friday | Particle Filtering and EKF | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/26/2026 | Monday | Seeded Paper Discussion: State Estimation | Abhishek | ||||
| 1/28/2026 | Wednesday | Introduction to Feedback Control | Sidd | ||||
| 1/30/2026 | Friday | PID Control and Pure Pursuit | Sidd | ||||
| 2/2/2026 | Monday | Pure Pursuit and LQR | Sidd | ||||
| 2/4/2026 | Wednesday | Linear Quadratic Regulator Continued | Sidd | ||||
| 2/6/2026 | Friday | Sampling-based MPC + Lyapunov Stability | Sidd | ||||
| 2/9/2026 | Monday | Seeded Paper Discussion: Control | Sidd | ||||
| 2/11/2026 | Wednesday | Guest Lecture 1: | |||||
| 2/13/2026 | Friday | Introduction to Planning and Heuristic Search | Sidd | ||||
| 2/16/2026 | Monday | Sampling-based Motion Planning | Sidd | ||||
| 2/18/2026 | Wednesday | A* search, Lazy Search | Sidd | ||||
| 2/20/2026 | Friday | Presidents Day (- no lecture -) | Sidd | ||||
| 2/23/2026 | Monday | RRT ++ | Sidd | ||||
| 2/25/2026 | Wednesday | Seeded Paper Discussion: Planning | Sidd | ||||
| 2/27/2026 | Friday | Imitation Learning | Abhishek | ||||
| 3/2/2026 | Monday | Reinforcement Learning - Policy Gradient | Abhishek | ||||
| 3/4/2026 | Wednesday | Reinforcement Learning - Actor Critic | Abhishek | ||||
| 3/6/2026 | Friday | Reinforcement Learning - Model-Based RL | Abhishek | ||||
| 3/9/2026 | Monday | Guest Lecture 2: | |||||
| 3/11/2026 | Wednesday | Seeded Paper Discussion: Learning | Abhishek | ||||
| 3/13/2026 | Friday | Final Project Demos | Abhishek |