ECE 550 Advanced Robotic Planning, Spring 2005
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL 61801

Daily Schedule

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Lecture is held in Rm. 260 of Everitt Lab, Tuesday and Thursday at 11:30-12:50

H. Choset, K. M. Lynch, S. Hutchinson, G. Kantor, W. Burgard, L. E. Kavraki and S. Thrun, Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations, MIT Press, Boston, 2005.

• Robot Motion Planning,  Jean-Claude Latombe,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.
• Planning Algorithms, Steven M. LaValle.

For this course, you are required to create a web page on which you will display your homework assignments. This
page should contain a link to each homework's solution The page for an individual assignment should include a
demo of the working program (e.g., gif files, animations), links to source code for your programs (including any
necessary makefiles), and a brief explanation of your approach.

For this course, you will be required to propose and implement a robot motion planning project.  Project proposals
will be due at mid-semester (deadlines will be announced soon). As with your homework,  you will create a web
page for your project, and it is this web page that will be graded.

•  CS326A: Motion Planning : Jean-Claude Latombe's class at Stanford
•  ComS 476/576: Motion Strategy: Algorithms and Applications : Steve Lavalle's class at Iowa State
•  CS 294-5: Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics : Ken Goldberg's class at Berkeley
•  COMP 450: Algorithmic Robotics : Lydia Kavraki's class at Rice
•  CPSC 643-600: Motion Planning : Nancy Amato's class at Texas A&M
•  CSE 597F: Intelligent Robotics : Rajeev Sharma's course at Penn State

In this course, you are encouraged to use software resources that are available in the public domain.  Some
sites that you may find useful are listed below.

•  CGAL homepage
•  LEDA homepage
•  GIFMerge homepage
•  Collision Detection: RAPID, PQP, V-COLLIDE, I-COLLIDE
•  Collision Detection: V-Clip
•  Geomview

•  Geometry in Action
•  Robotics Internet Resources Page (UMass) (an archived site)
•  CMU Robotics FAQ
•  Engineeringdegree.net robotics site