Schedule

This schedule is tentative and subject to change.

All Slides will be posted on Canvas

DATEDAYLECTURE TITLEINSTRUCTORRECORDINGSLIDESHW RELEASEHW DUE DATES
03/30/2026 Monday Introduction and Course Overview Sidd Zoom Additional ROS Review
Knowledge Survey
04/01/2026 Wednesday Anatomy of an Autonomous Vehicle Sidd Zoom Knowledge Survey
04/03/2026 Friday Recursive Bayes Filtering Abhishek Panopto
04/06/2026 Monday Bayesian Filtering Abhishek Zoom
04/08/2026 Wednesday Bayesian Filtering (continued) Abhishek Zoom
04/10/2026 Friday Motion and Observation Models Abhishek Zoom
04/13/2026 Monday Particle Filter Abhishek Panopto
04/15/2026 Wednesday Particle Filtering and Kalman Filtering Abhishek Zoom
04/17/2026 Friday The Kalman Filter Abhishek Zoom Intro Project
04/20/2026 Monday Seeded Paper Discussion: Localization Abhishek
04/22/2026 Wednesday Quiz 1 + Introduction to Feedback Control Abhishek
04/24/2026 Friday PID Control, Pure Pursuit Abhishek
04/27/2026 Monday Model Predictive Control Abhishek Localization Project
04/29/2026 Wednesday Linear Quadratic Regulator Abhishek
05/01/2026 Friday Seeded Paper Discussion: Control Abhishek
05/04/2026 Monday Quiz 2 + Introduction to Planning Sidd
05/06/2026 Wednesday Heuristic Search Sidd
05/08/2026 Friday Sampling-based Motion Planning Sidd Control Project
05/11/2026 Monday Lazy Search, Planning for Vehicles Sidd
05/13/2026 Wednesday Seeded Paper Discussion: Planning Sidd
05/15/2026 Friday Quiz 3 + Imitation Learning Sidd
05/18/2026 Monday Reinforcement Learning - Policy Gradient Sidd
05/20/2026 Wednesday Reinforcement Learning - Actor Critic Sidd
05/22/2026 Friday Reinforcement Learning - Model Based RL Sidd
05/25/2026 Monday Memorial Day Holiday Planning Project
05/27/2026 Wednesday Seeded Paper Discussion: Learning Sidd
05/29/2026 Friday Quiz 4 + Conclusion Sidd
06/01/2026 Monday Work on project
06/03/2026 Wednesday Work on project
06/05/2026 Friday Final Project Demos (Time TBD) Final Project