RoboBehaviors Debrief // Intro To State Estimation

Today

• RoboBehaviors Debrief
• An Introduction to State Estimation
• Conceptual Introduction to the Particle Filter
• Studio Time

For Next Time

• Work on the the RoboBehaviors.
  • The final project deliverables are due tomorrow Tuesday 23rd at 7PM!
  • A rubric for the project is available on Canvas.*
• Work on the Broader Impacts assignment Part 1, due on September 30th at 7PM.
  • We will have a class discussion on Thursday Oct. 2nd.
• Read over the description of the Robot Localization project.
  • For more reinforcement of the concepts behind the particle filter, watch this video.

RoboBehaviors Debrief

While the final deliverables are still being polished, let’s share-out some of what we’ve been learning and doing with one another. Slides are available here.

An Introduction to State Estimation

We’re about to launch our next project into State Estimation and Localization. This is a very rich subfield in robotics; a short presentation will introduce some of the concepts and lead into our activity on a conceptual introduction to a particle filter.

A Conceptual Introduction to the Particle Filter

How does a robot know where it is? We’ll be doing an activity to introduce our next major topic in the class: robot localization. This is supposed to be a fun activity to get you thinking about the basic concepts of one tool for localization, the particle filter.