Autonomous Robotics

You can have a look at and discuss your reports on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 4:30pm in room NB 5/99.

The practical course gives an introduction to mobile robotics with a focus on dynamical systems approaches. In the exercises, the computing environment Matlab is used to control e-puck miniature mobile robots, equipped with a differential drive, combined infrared/proximity sensors and a video camera. The course covers elementary problems in robot odometry, use of sensors and motor control. It then teaches basic dynamic methods for robot navigation, in which the robot's sensors are used for obstacle avoidance and approach to a target location.

Lecturers

Details

Course type
Lab courses
Credits
2 CP
Term
Summer Term 2015

Dates

Preliminary meeting
Takes place on 27.08.2015 from 10:15 to 11:00 in room NB 3/57.
Lab course
Takes place every day from 10:00 to 18:00 in room NB 02/77.
First appointment is on 14.09.2015
Last appointment is on 18.09.2015

Requirements

Interested students who do not have experience in Matlab should attend the Matlab introduction of the lab exercise Computer Vision (typically the week before this course).

Documents

Lecture slides Background material
Exercises Exercise sheets
Lecture slides Report guidelines
Lecture slides General information
Lecture slides Report Latex template

About the INI

The Institut für Neuroinformatik (INI) is a research unit of the Faculty of Computer Science at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Its scientific goal is to understand the fundamental principles through which organisms generate behavior and cognition while linked to their environments through sensory and effector systems. Inspired by our insights into such natural cognitive systems, we seek new solutions to problems of information processing in artificial cognitive systems. We draw from a variety of disciplines that include experimental psychology and neurophysiology as well as machine learning, neural artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.

Contact

Universitätsstr. 150, Building NB, Room 3/32
D-44801 Bochum, Germany

Tel: (+49) 234 32-28967
Fax: (+49) 234 32-14210

sekretariat@ini.rub.de
www.ini.rub.de