| Instructor: | Derek Harter |
| Office: | Jour 208 |
| Phone: | 903-886-5402 |
| Email: | dharter@online.tamu-commerce.edu |
| Office Hours: | MTW 9:00am - 11:00am |
| Class: | Sec 001: MW 9:30am - 10:45am Jour 103 |
This course is designed to provide a forum for applying and testing artificial intelligence methods and models, especially behavior-based techniques, on a robot. While models will be evaluated with respect to their theoretical tenability (i.e., conceptual clarity, support by empirical data, plausibility), most emphasis will be given to issues of practicality (i.e., feasibility of implementation, real-time/real-world issues, computational resources, etc.) These practical considerations will be extensively studied in simulations as well as real-world implementations on a variety of robots. Students will participate in weekly competitions, where each week new topics are discussed and the methods are implemented in students' robots for the competitions.
Students should develop the ability to work in interdisciplinary groups on original complex software projects incorporating results from various different subdisciplines in AI to solve concrete problems defined in the context of a set of tasks for a robotic agent. Solutions will be implemented, tested and evaluated on various robotic platforms Upon successful completion of this course of study a student:
CSCI 270 or permission of instructor.