Module0 Welcome July2024
Module0 Welcome July2024
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Organizers
Jérôme Mendes David Portugal Cristiano Premebida
Lecturers
Urbano J. Nunes Jorge Batista Paulo Peixoto Nuno Gonçalves Lino Marques Pedro Martins
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Course Overview
1st Part I – Mobile Robotics; automated systems; Robot Operating System
week
Part II – Machine learning; Perception systems; Inference; Deep Learning
2nd w. Part III – Practical (hands-on) and Lab activities; Use-cases; Teamwork;
Aim
The aim is for the students (bachelors, master or early-PhD) to understand the fundamentals (both theory and
practical) of Mobile Robotics, Automated Systems, and Machine Learning and their applications to real-world
engineering problems. The programme is divided in two modules: (i) Hardware and software for mobile robotics;
and (ii) Applied machine learning.
Course info
ECTS = 3, approx. 81 hs
Assessment:
1. a short report related to the activities/projects developed throughout the Course (no more than 8 pages);
2. Markings/grades.
• The classification/scores will be attributed on a qualitative scale with 4 levels of approval (according to the non-degree
courses practices): “Approved, Approved With Honors, Approved With Great Honors, Approved With Highest Honors”.
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Reading list (non exhaustive)
• Sebastian Thrun, Wolfram Burgard, Dieter Fox. “Probabilistic robotics”, MIT Press, (2006)
• Roland Siegwart, et al. “Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots”, Second Edition (2011)
• Shalom, B. “Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory Algorithms and Software”.
Wiley. (2001)
• Kevin P. Murphy "Machine Learning: a Probabilistic Perspective", the MIT Press (2012)
• A. Papoulis, S.U. Pillai. “Probability, Random Variables and Stochastic Processes”, (2002)
• Jerome H. Friedman, Robert Tibshirani, and Trevor Hastie. "The Elements of Statistical Learning", (2009)
• David Barber "Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning", Cambridge University Press (2012)
• Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville, "Deep Learning", MIT Press (2016)
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Overview and overall Programme
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Today’s Programme
- Session 1: here we are … let us know each other Brief overview on Autonomous driving, Robotics and
links with Machine Learning
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Notes, further info
Internet:
Use the eduroam WIFI network
https://kb.deec.uc.pt/books
https://kb.deec.uc.pt/books/deec-english/chapter/software
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Questions?
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