ECE4078 - Intelligent robotics
6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate Faculty of Engineering
Offered
Not offered in 2009
Synopsis
Intelligent Robotics concerns the melding of artificial perception, strategic reasoning and robotic action in potentially unstructured and time-varying environments to fulfill useful physical tasks, whether in industry or for security, healthcare, search and rescue or civil defense etc.This unit covers topics underpinning the above requirements, including sensors, sensor fusion, machine perception, environmental mapping/monitoring, path planning, localisation, mechanisms, artificial intelligence methodologies and application domains.
Objectives
Students will gain an understanding of the physical structure, sensing/actuation and programming required to develop an intelligent robot. They will be able to specify the robotic mechanism, its sensors and actuators and then be capable of programming and integrating these components into a functioning robot system. By considering case studies they will be able to critically appraise robot systems developed by others.
Assessment
Laboratory and assignment work: 30%
Examination (3 hours): 70%. Student must achieve a mark of 45% in each component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve an overall pass grade.
Contact hours
2 hours lectures, 4 hours laboratory/practice classes and 6 hours private study per week
Prerequisites
Prohibitions
ECE4711, ECE5078, ECE5711