Course calendar

(subject to change – check frequently)

Week

Lectures/Discussion Content

Project Progress

Assignments

Readings and slides

1

Sep 28

Introductory lecture (CSE 303)

Motivation

Project ideas   

Team formation

 

Install NAO and Kinect SDKs

 

Run basic tests

 

 


Lecture 1 slides

 

Kinect programming guide

 

NAO tutorials and guide

 

Sep 30

Lecture: Primer on inverse kinematics and dimensionality reduction for robotics (CSE 303)

 

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Progress report on initial installation and testing

Warm-up project 1 assigned

Lecture 2 slides

2

Oct 5
Lecture: Primer on machine learning (CSE 303)

Work on warm-up project 1

 

Lecture 3 slides

Oct 7

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Progress report on warm-up project 1

 

 

3

Oct 12  

Guest lecture by Prof. Dieter Fox on the applications of RGB-D cameras (CSE 303)

Work on warm-up project 1

 

Oct 14
Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Warm-up project 1 demos 

Warm-up project 1 report due by 11:59pm

 

Warm-up project 2 assigned

 

 

 

Oct 19

Guest lecture by Dr. Rawichote (Choppy) Chalodhorn on inverse kinematics and stable imitation learning (CSE 303)

Work on warm-up project 2

 

Slides from Choppy on Inverse Kinematics

Oct 21
Guest lecture by Microsoft Robotics Studio team: Using Kinect for Robotics

Work on warm-up project 2

 

Slides from the Microsoft team on Kinect and robotics

5

Oct 26

Guest lecture by Dr. Marc Deisenroth: Applying reinforcement learning and Bayesian techniques to robotic learning (CSE 303)

Work on warm-up project 2

 

Brainstorming among team members on goals for final project

Papers: 1, 2

Thesis

Oct 28

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Status reports on warm-up project 2

 

Brainstorming among team members on goals for final project

 

 

6

Nov 2

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

 

Discussion with staff on goals for final project

 

Finish warm-up project 2

 

Nov 4

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Warm-up project 2 demos

 

Finalize goals for final project

 

Start working on final project proposal and Milestone 1

Warm-up project 2 report due by 11:59pm on Saturday, Nov 5

 

 

7

Nov 9
Team presentations of final project proposals (CSE 303)

 

Proposal of final projects and feedback from staff

 

Work on milestone 1

Final project proposal write-up due by 11:59pm on Sunday, Nov 13

 

Nov 11

Veterans day: UW holiday

 

8

Nov 16

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Milestone 1 demos and feedback from staff

 

Work toward milestone 2

 

 

Nov 18
Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

 

Status reports (in the lab)

 

Work toward milestone 2

 

 

9

Nov 23

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Milestone 2 demos and feedback from staff

 

Nov 25
Thanksgiving: UW holiday

 

 

 

 

10

Nov 30

Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Status reports (in the lab)

 

Start working on project report

 

 

 

Dec 2
Team/Staff meeting (CSE 345)

Status reports (in the lab)

 

 

11

Dec 7

Final project presentations by teams (Gates Commons)

Feedback from staff for public demos

 

 

 

Dec 9
Public demos (Gates Commons)

 

Final project reports due by Sunday Dec 11 11:59pm

 

Finals
Week

 

No final exam!