Syllabus and Schedule
Syllabus
Lectures
Lec01-Introduction
- Current State of the Art in Distributed Autonomous Mobile Robotics
Lynne E. Parker
Lec02-SensorsAndPose
Lec03-Actuators
Lec04-Control
Lec05-Braitenberg_FSM_Behaviors
- Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, chapter 1-3
Valentino Braitenberg
- A Robot that Walks; Emergent Behavior from a Carefully Evolved Network
Brooks, R. A.
- A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot (for reference)
Brooks, R. A.
Lec06-Communications
- The Aloha System — Another alternative for computer communications
Norman Abramson
- Optimum Transmission Radii for Packet Radio Networks -or- Why Six is a Magic Mumber
Leonard Kleinrock and John Silvester
Lec07-DistributedAlgorithms
- Supporting Aggregate Queries Over Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
Samuel Madden, Robert Szewczyk, Michael Franklin, and David Culler
Lec08-ConsensusAndAgreement
- Flocks, Herds, and Schools: A Distributed Behavioral Model
Craig W. Reynolds
- Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems
Reza Olfati-Saber, J. Alex Fax, and Richard M. Murray
- Convergence in Multiagent Coordination, Consensus, and Flocking
Vincent D. Blondel, Julien M. Hendrickx, Alex Olshevsky, and John N. Tsitsiklis
- Distributed Asynchronous Deterministic and Stochastic Gradient Optimization Algorithms (for reference)
John N. Tsitsiklis, Dimitri P. Bertsekas, and Michael Athans
Lec09-ComputationalGeometry (No notes)
- Edelsbrunner et al. - 1983 - On the shape of a set of points in the plane
Herbert Edelsbrunner, David g. Kirkpatrick, and Raimund Seidel
- A Distributed Boundary Detection Algorithm for Multi-Robot Systems
James McLurkin, Erik D. Demaine
- Deterministic boundary recognition and topology extraction for large sensor networks (read)
Alexander Kröller, Sándor P. Fekete, Dennis Pfisterer, Stefan Fischer
Lec10-Exploration (No Notes)
- Coverage control for mobile sensing networks
Jorge Cortés, Sonia Martinez, Timur Karatas, Francesco Bullo
- Distributed, Physics-Based Control of Swarms of Vehicles
William Spears, Diana Spears, Jerry Hamann, Rodney Heil
Lec11-EmbeddedSystems
Problem Sets