MAE 145Introduction to Robotic Planning and Estimation
This course is an introduction to robotic planning algorithms and programming. Topics include sensor-based planning (bug algorithms), motion planning via decomposition and search (basic search algorithms on graphs, A*), the configuration-space concept, free configuration spaces via sampling, collision detection algorithms, (optimal) planning via sampling (probabilistic trees), environment roadmaps, and filtering for robot localization and environment mapping (SLAM).
Prerequisites
From the catalog: “MAE 8, MAE 108, and senior standing or consent of instructor.”
Where it sits in degree plans
One of the options in (2)
- AeroEng w/Spec FlightDyn&Contl
- Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Controls and Robotics (B.S.)