Advanced Techniques for Mobile Robotics (Robotics 2) - WS 2011/12
This course will be a research oriented course that provides an
introduction into scientific work, writing papers, etc. Besides
classical lectures, students will be required to carry out projects and to implement own ideas.
General Information:
- Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Burgard, PD Dr. Cyrill Stachniss, Jun-Prof. Dr. Kai Arras, Jun-Prof. Dr. Maren Bennewitz
- Tutor: Dipl. Phys. Jonas Rist
- Lectures/Exercises: Monday 10-12 (Room SR 01-018, Building 101) and Wednesday 14-16 (Room SR 00-034, Building 51)
- Language: English
Slides:
- Introduction
- A Compact Course on Linear Algebra
- Gnuplot Tutorial and Gnuplot Examples
- Octave Tutorial
- Robot Software Architectures
- ROS
- Least Squares (blackboard material)
- Odometry Calibration by Least Squares (for the exercise on 14.11.2011)
- Camera Calibration
- Graph-based SLAM with Least Squares (blackboard material, Least-Squares SLAM Tutorial)
- Graph-Based SLAM with Landmarks
- Simultaneous Calibration, Localization, and Mapping (blackboard material)
- TORO - SLAM with Gradient Descent (blackboard material; TORO journal paper, Covariance estimation paper)
- SLAM Frontends
- Gaussian Processes in Robotics (Book: Gaussian Processes in ML)
- Clustering (updated 20.12.2011)
- GMMs
- BoW and Appearance-based Mapping (updated 20.12.2011, video, FAB-MAP Papers: IJRR 2008, IJRR 2010)
- 3D Object Recognition
- Classification with AdaBoost
- Target Tracking
- Data Association
- Location-based Activity Recognition (related publications and animations can be found at the webpage of D. Fox)
- POMDPs
- Statistical Testing
- How to Write a Paper
Schedule/Recordings:
- 2011-10-24: Intro, Linear Algebra, Gnuplot (Cyrill Stachniss; no recordings)
- 2011-10-26: Octave Tutorial (Kai Arras; no recordings)
- 2011-10-31: Exercise (Jonas Rist)
- 2011-11-02: Robot Software Architectures (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 95min, 152MB)
- 2011-11-07: ROS (Felix Endres, Juergen Hess; MP4 video, 88min, 134MB)
- 2011-11-09: Least Squares (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 60min, 571MB); Lecture without blackboard derivations (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 40min, 55MB)
- 2011-11-09: Camera Calibration (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 45min, 65MB)
- 2011-11-14: Exercise (Jonas Rist)
- 2011-11-16: Graph-based SLAM with Least Squares (Cyrill Stachniss; ONLY PARTIAL RECORDINGS; MP4 video, 34min, 50MB)
- 2011-11-21: Graph-Based SLAM with Landmarks (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 62min, 96MB)
- 2011-11-21: Simultaneous Calibration, Localization, and Mapping (Cyrill Stachniss; no recordings)
- 2011-11-23: TORO - SLAM with Gradient Descent (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 88min, 136MB)
- 2011-11-28: SLAM Front-Ends Part 1 (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 57min, 172MB)
- 2011-11-28: SLAM Front-Ends Part 2 (Cyrill Stachniss; no recordings, 35min)
- 2011-11-30: Gaussian Processes in Robotics (Cyrill Stachniss; MP4 video, 93min, 150MB)
- 2011-12-05: Project work (Cyrill Stachniss; no recordings)
- 2011-12-07: Project work (Cyrill Stachniss; no recordings)
- 2011-12-12: Clustering (Maren Bennewitz, MP4 video, 73min, 136MB)
- 2011-12-14: GMMs, Bag of Words, Appearance-based Mapping part 1 (Maren Bennewitz, MP4 video, 41min, 63MB)
- 2011-12-14: GMMs, Bag of Words, Appearance-based Mapping part 2 (Maren Bennewitz, MP4 video, 21min, 34MB)
- 2011-12-19: Exercise (Jonas Rist)
- 2011-12-21: 3D Object Recognition (Wolfram Burgard)
- 2012-01-09: Exercise (Kai Arras): People Detection and Tracking Project
- 2012-01-11: Classification with AdaBoost (Kai Arras, no recordings)
- 2012-01-16: Exercise (Kai Arras): People Detection and Tracking Project (cont.)
- 2012-01-18: Target Tracking (Kai Arras, no recordings)
- 2012-01-23: Exercise (Kai Arras): People Detection and Tracking Project (cont.)
- 2012-01-25: Data Association (Kai Arras)
- 2012-01-30: Exercise (Jonas Rist): People Detection and Tracking Project (cont.)
- 2012-02-01: Activity Recognition part 1 (Maren Bennewitz, MP4 video, 44 Min, 79 MB)
- 2012-02-01: Activity Recognition part 2 (Maren Bennewitz, MP4 video, 18 Min, 27 MB)
- 2012-02-06: Exercise (Jonas Rist)
- 2012-02-08: POMDPs (Wolfram Burgard)
- 2012-02-13: Statistical Testing (Cyrill Stachniss)
- 2012-02-15: How to Write a Paper (Cyrill Stachniss)
Exercises/Projects:
- Exercise: Octave Introduction (PDF, solution)
- Project: Least Squares SLAM (PDF, archive with code and datsets)
- Project: Bag of Words (PDF, archive with BoW project files, solution)
- Project: People Detection and Tracking (PDF, archive with code and datasets, solution (updated!))
- Project: Activity Recognition (PDF, archive with code and datasets , solution)