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Hello all, I am offering a new course, Planning Motions of Robots and Molecules (CS689), this coming Spring semester. The course will cover fundamental principles, classical, and modern approaches to address two questions: 1. How can a robot automatically plan and execute a sequence of motions that avoids collision with obstacles and accomplishes assigned tasks? 2. How can a robot use sensor-based information to determine its own state and model the world? Topics will include planning with kinematic and dynamic constraints, sensor-based planning, manipulation and assembly planning, planning under uncertainty, and robotics-inspired methods for planning motions of biological molecules. The format of the course will be powerpoint lectures based on modern robotics textbooks and research papers. There will be programming-based homeworks, one midterm exam, and a final project. A modern motion planning platform will be provided, OOPSMP, which takes away low-level programming and allows quickly reproducing algorithms and designing new ones through essentially plug-n-play. A flyer about the course is attached. More information can be found on the class website, http://www.cs.gmu.edu/~ashehu/?q=CS689_Spring2012 CS583 is the only prerequisite. The class is offered at Fairfax Campus, Fridays 4:30-7:10 pm. -Amarda Shehu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor Phone: 703-993-4135 Department of Computer Science Fax: 703-993-1710 George Mason University, MSN 4A5 Email: amarda/AT/cs.gmu.edu 4400 University Drive Web: www.cs.gmu.edu/~ashehu Fairfax, VA, 22030 ----------------------------------------------------------------------