CPSC 643-600: Motion Planning
(aka Robotics Programming)
Course Homepage
Fall 1996

Instructor: Nancy Amato
office: 414B Harvey R. Bright Bldg
office hours: 3-4pm Wednesdays, 1-1:50pm Fridays, or by appointment
email: amato@cs.tamu.edu
url: http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/amato
office phone: 862-2275
home phone: 693-1855 (please don't call after midnight or before 9am)

Course homepage: http://parasol.tamu.edu/people/amato/Courses/643

• Lecture Notes
• Reading Assignments
• Robotics VIP Assignment
• Homework Assignments
• Project Assignments

Handouts

• Syllabus postscript or html
• Robotics VIP Assignment
  • assignment html
  • presentation schedule html
  • gallery html
• Lecture Notes/Slides
  • Lecture Notes 1: Introduction (Ch 1 in Latombe)
    • postscript (missing some figures)
    • Set 1 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 2: Configuration Space (Ch 2 and 3 in Latombe)
    • postscript (missing some figures)
    • Sets 2, 3, 4 and first part of Set 5 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 3: Exact Cell Decomposition Methods (Ch 5 in Latombe)
    
    • postscript (missing some figures)
    • second part of Set 5 and Sets 6 and 7 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 4: Approximate Cell Decomposition Methods (Ch 6 in Latombe)
    
    • postscript
    • Set 8 and first part of Set 9 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 5: Roadmap Methods (Ch 4 in Latombe and Papers)
    
    • postscript
    • second part of Set 9 and Sets 11-13 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 6: Potential Field Methods (Ch 7 in Latombe and a Paper)
    
    • postscript (missing some figures)
    • Sets 14-17 in Bright copy center
  • Lecture Notes 7: Multiple Moving Objects (Ch 8 in Latombe)
    
    • postscript
    • Sets 19-20 in Bright copy center
• Reading Assignments
  • reading assigment #1 html
  • reading assigment #2 html
  • reading assigment #3 html
  • reading assigment #4 html
  • reading assigment #5 html
• Homework Assignments
  • homework #1 html (Due Thursday September 26 in class)
    homework #1 solutions postscipt
  • homework #2 html (Due Tuesday October 22 in class)
  • Mini Homeworks
    • mini homework #1 html (Due Thursday October 17 in class)
    • mini homework #2 html (Due Thursday October 24 in class)
    • mini homework #3 postscript (Due Thursday October 31 in class)
    • mini homework #4 postscript (Due Tuesday November 12 in class)
    • mini homework #5 postscript (Due Tuesday November 19 in class)
    • mini homework #6 postscript (Due Tuesday December 3 in class)
    • mini homework #7 postscript (Due Tuesday December 10 in class)
• Project Assignments
  • project assignment #1 html (Due Tuesday October 22 in class)
  • project assignment #2 html (Due Thursday November 7 in class)
  • project assignment #3 html (Due Friday December 13 by 5pm)

Interesting Dates