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2024 Edition

Short-term course / Summer school on:

Robotics and applied


Machine Learning
(RML)
https://sites.google.com/view/roboticsmachinelearning/home

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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

Volunteers, Mentors, teaching assistants Partners


Fabio Faria, Pedro Martins, Luís Garrote, João Paulo, Pedro Conde, Tiago Barros, João Perdiz, ISR, DEEC, FacLab.
Jorge S. Silveira Júnior, et al.

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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)

• Christopher M. Bishop "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning". Springer (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

- Part 1: Mobile Robotics


• Module 1. Introduction and overview: robotics and machine learning
• Module 2. Mobile robotics hardware and systems
• Module 3. Fundamentals of mobile robotics
• Module 4. Mobile robots perception
• Module 5. Robotics simulation, Robot Operating System

- Part 2: Machine Learning


• Module 6. Probability, Bayesian inference, Bayesian Networks
• Module 7. Pattern recognition, principles, algorithms
• Module 8. Linear and non-linear regression
• Module 9. Introduction to Deep-learning and machine vision
• Module 10. Reinforcement learning, Fuzzy-systems

- Part 3: Case studies, robotics and ML [even more] in practice


Datasets on: robotic perception, autonomous robots/vehicles, machine vision …
PyTorch/Matlab (or equivalent tools), supervised classification, pattern recognition, object detection, …

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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

(10:50 – 11:05) Coffee break (~15min)

- (11:10 – 12:30) : Factory Lab visiting (@Dpt. Chemical Engineering)

Time for lunch (~ 1 ½ h )

- Module 2 (14:00 – 17/17:30): Fundamentals of Mobile Robots

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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

Ardunino IDE ( https://www.arduino.cc/en/software )

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Questions?

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