15-491 Special Topic: CMRoboBits: AI and Robots for Daily-Life Problems

12 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course will be a projectbased course in which we will look at AI and robotics artifacts and techniques to automate solutions to realworld problems, in particular related to life in cities. The course will start by collecting and brainstorming about real problems biased to ones that involve the physical space in addition to the cyber information space, such as traffic rush hour, noise in cities, 3D building inspection, service and data gathering. We will then formalize the chosen problems and analyze existing real data. The course will proceed by possibly enabling the students to prototype their projects beyond simulation, and using the CORAL lab robots, e.g., the CoBot or NAO robots or drones. The course work will be a single large project, performed by groups of up to 3 students. The projects will be divided in three phases, due at the end of February, March, and the end of the course. Students are expected to have programming experience in C or python.

Prerequisites: 15-122 (min C)

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