Section 2 : Robotics

Commentary

Section Goals

• To introduce general topics about robotics, such as robot hardware, software architectures, and robotic perception, motion, and planning.

Learning Objectives

Learning Objective 1

• Outline the basic hardware and software components of robots, and explain what makes them different from other systems, such as rockets or automobiles.
• Describe the basic principles in robotic perception, motion, and navigation, and explain how other AI techniques can be applied to these tasks.

Objective Readings

Required readings:

Reading topics:

Robotics (see Chapter 25 of AIMA3ed)

Objective Activities

- Explore the Internet to find three papers about robotics that are at your level of understanding, and discuss them in the online course conference.