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Introduction to Mobile Robotics

Organizers: Prof. Dr. Abhinav Valada

Co-Organizers:
Dr. Daniel Büscher, Dr. Lukas Luft, Iana Zhura, Dulce Adriana Gómez Rosal

This course will introduce basic concepts and techniques used within the field of mobile robotics. We analyze the fundamental challenges for autonomous intelligent systems and present the state of the art solutions. Among other topics, we will discuss kinematics, sensors, vehicle localization, map building, SLAM, control basics and path planning.

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Details

Time: Lectures: Tuesday: 14:00 s.t. – 16:00
Exercise: Thursday: 16:00 c.t. - 18:00
First meeting on April 16, 2024.
Location: This course will be held in-person. Lectures are conducted at HS 00 026 (G.-Köhler-Allee 101) and Exercise Sessions at HS 00 006 (G.-Köhler-Allee 082)
Learning Platform: ILIAS

Course Overview

The course will be taught in English.

Every week there will be:
- a lecture in person
- an exercise sheet
- an exercise session in-person

The exam is WRITTEN for most students, except for bachelor students of computer science with Prüfungsordnung 2012.


All learning material including video lectures, slides, and exercises can be found on ILIAS

Lectures

Lecture Dates Topic
01 16-04-2024 Introduction
02 23-04-2024 Probability Theory
03 30-04-2024 Sensor Models
04 07-05-2024 Motion Models
05 14-05-2024 Particle Filter
06 28-05-2024 Kalman Filter
07 04-06-2024 Grid Mapping
08 11-06-2024 SLAM - Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
09 18-06-2024 FastSLAM and Graph-based SLAM
10 25-06-2024 Techniques for 3D Mapping
11 02-07-2024 Motion and Path Planning
12 09-07-2024 Control Systems
13 16-07-2024 Q&A Session

Exercises

Each exercise session consists of two parts: answering open questions on the lecture and the discussion of the exercise sheets.

Solving the exercise sheets is recommended but not mandatory to be admitted to the final exam. There are no bonus points.

Exercise sheets will be published one week before the discussion session. We strongly encourage you to solve the exercise sheets beforehand to benefit from the discussions in class.

Questions?

If you have a question, please post it in the ILIAS forum (so everyone can benefit from the answer). Alternatively, you can also email mobilerobotics@cs.uni-freiburg.de