Course Syllabus
This course is an advanced introduction to, and a research investigation of state of the art algorithms required for autonomous driving, and more generally, mobile robots. In the first half of the course, we will cover an essential range of topics related to autononomous driving including time-optimal control, planning, and state estimation. In the second half of the course, teams will lead research projects going beyond the lecture topics, and pushing on the boundaries of the state of the art in autonomous driving. Assignments and the research project will be completed in teams of three students on the UT-AUTOmata scale 1/10 autonomous cars. There will be weekly assignments on implementing each building block culminating in a mid-term project to have your autonomous car autonomously explore an environment and visit prescribed locations to collect points. The final project will explore research along one of four suggested research areas: 1) High-speed motion control and planning; 2) High-speed state estimation; 3) Multi-agent (cooperative or adversarial) planning for autonomous driving; 4) Robust semantic-metric situational awareness.
Link to course website: https://amrl.cs.utexas.edu/CS378H-F23/ Links to an external site.
Course Summary:
| Date | Details | Due |
|---|---|---|
| Mon Aug 28, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 1: Checkpoint 0 | due by 11:59pm |
| Tue Sep 5, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 1: Checkpoint 1 | due by 11:59pm |
| Mon Sep 11, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 1: Checkpoint 2 | due by 11:59pm |
| Mon Sep 18, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 1 | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Milestone 1 Group Contribution Evaluation | due by 11:59pm | |
| Mon Sep 25, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 2: Checkpoint 3 | due by 11:59pm |
| Wed Oct 4, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 2: Checkpoint 4 | due by 11:59pm |
| Fri Oct 20, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 2 | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Milestone 2 Group Contribution Evaluation | due by 11:59pm | |
| Mon Oct 23, 2023 | Assignment MediBots - The Startup Crunch | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Responsible Robotics Essay | due by 11:59pm | |
| Wed Oct 25, 2023 | Assignment MediBots - Trial By Contradictions | due by 11:59pm |
| Fri Oct 27, 2023 | Assignment MediBots - Life After | due by 11:59pm |
| Mon Oct 30, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 3: Checkpoint 5 | due by 11:59pm |
| Mon Nov 6, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 3 Group Contribution Evaluation | due by 11:59pm |
| Wed Nov 8, 2023 | Assignment Milestone 3 | due by 11:59pm |
| Mon Nov 13, 2023 | Assignment Project Proposals | due by 11:59pm |
| Wed Dec 6, 2023 | Calendar Event Course Evaluations Fall 2023 | 5:59pm |
| Sat Dec 9, 2023 | Assignment Final Project Report + Other Materials | due by 11:59pm |
| Assignment Milestone 1, Checkpoint 0: Individual | ||
| Assignment UT Instapoll |