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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Quantum Computational Intelligence PPT SLIDES

Quantum Computational Intelligence
Instructor:Marek Andrzej Perkowski
Textbook:Quantum Inspired Intelligent System
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  1. Motivation to Quantum Computing.

  2. Quantum Entanglement and EPR circuit.

  3. Quantum Circuits Analysis and Synthesis.

  4. Informal introduction to Grover Algorithm.

  5. Designing Oracles for Grover Algorithm and Homework.

  6. Comparison of quantum and probabilistic concepts.

  7. Deutsch's Algorithm.ppt

  8. Simon Algorithm.

  9. Grover more formally. Part 1.

  10. Grover part 2.

  11. Example of good project from a student

Advanced Embeded Robotics PPT and PDF SLIDES

Advanced Embeded Robotics
Instructor: Marke A.Perkowski
Textbook: Embedded Robotics , Thomas Braunl
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PROPOSITIONAL LOGIC AND MODAL LOGIC IN ROBOTICS.

  1. introduction to logic.

  2. Basic Logic.

  3. Reasoning Agents.

  4. Representation and Logic.

  5. First Order Logic. ADDITIONAL.

  6. Boolean Logic.

  7. Robot Morality and Review of classical logic.

  8. Introduction to Satisfiability.

  9. Wumpus world in Ppropositional logic.

  10. A muddy children and intro to modal logic.

  11. Wise Men, Muddy Children, Logic Puzzles and Modal Logic.

  12. The Narrow Bridge Universe.

  13. sum and product problem.


KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION AND PLANNING WITH FIRST ORDER LOGIC.

  1. Introductio to Knowledge representation.

  2. Introduction to Planning.

  3. From propositional to predicate logic.

  4. First order logic.

  5. Inference in first order logic.

  6. Examples of FIRST ORDER theorem-proving and Colonel West.

  7. Artificial Intelligence in Logic. Prolog Language Tutorial.

  8. ROBOT MORALITY. An easy introduction.

  9. Prolog Planning Monkey and Banana.

  10. Modal and Deontic Logic Derivations.


Mobile robots.



  1. Class about autonomous mobile robots. In PDF.

  2. Homework in mobile robot kinematics. In PDF format.

  3. Measurement and correction of systematic odometry errors in mobile robots. Paper in PDF format.

  4. Paper in PDF. Structural Properties and Classification of Kinematic and Dynamic Models of Wheeled Mobile Robots.


PROBABILISTIC ROBOTICS. LOCALIZATION. PLANNING. MAPPING.

Robot Localization and related topics.



  1. Mobile robot positioning using sensor. In PDF.

  2. Paper in PDF about Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots.

  3. Paper on Experimental Comparison of localization methods in PDF.

  4. Bayesian estimation and Kalman filtering: A Unified framework for Mobile Robot Localization. Paper in PDF.

  5. Fingerprint for mobile robot localization in PDF.

  6. Dynamic Markov localization approach, by Burgard, Derr, Fox and Cremers. Paper in PDF format.



Robot Path Planning and related topics.



  1. Planning-to-move.ppt Navigation and Metric Path Planning.

  2. Lecture from CMU about Path planning for mobile robots. Slides in PDF format.

  3. Paper about path planning for a mobile robot. In PDF.

  4. New Paradigm for robot learning. In PDF.

  5. Paper about fast obstable avoidence based on vector field histogram. In PDF.


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STATIONARY ROBOTS.

1. Motion Planning for stationary robots.



  1. Motion planning methods good for stationary robot with hands. In PDF.

  2. Motion Planning that may be applied to any kind of robots. PDF.


ROBOT SOCCER AND SIMILAR IMPROVISATIONS.

  1. Robot soccer competitions. Introduction to Robot Vision. Slides in PPT.

  2. Vision Guided Motion. Slides in PDF.

  3. Robot Soccer. Birgit Graf, student of Prof. Braunl. Here you can learn about Robot Soccer and their vision system in full detail. In PDF format.


ADVANCED PRACTICAL ALGORITHMS.

Matrix Calculations



  1. Fast Parallel Algorithms for Matrix problems. Slides in PPT Format.


ROBOT COMPETITIONS, ROBOT TEAMS, AND ROBOT SOCIETIES.

  1. Paper about autonomous driving mobile robot competitions. In PDF format.

  2. Technical Activities of RAS. Slides in PPT.

  3. A Probabilistic Approach to Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization. Paper in PDF.

  4. Heterogeneous Team of Modular Robots for Mapping and Exploration. Paper in PDF by Robert Grabowski.

  5. Lecture from CMU about coordination using search. In PDF format.

  6. Lecture from CMU about developing autonomy for robots in teams. Slides in PDF format This has applications to robot soccer and robot theatre.

  7. Paper about robot colony for entertainment. In PDF.


VARIOUS ROBOTIC ARCHITECTURES.

Behavior Based Robotics and Biological Models.



  1. Slides in PPT about behavior based robot design. We discussed several similar ideas in class.

  2. Robots and biological intelligence. PDF.

  3. From Sensory Substitution to Situated Robots. Slides in PPT.


Emotional Robots.



  1. Slides in PPT by Mark Brosnan about Affective computing. This material related to class project about robot theatre.


Evolutionary Robots.



  1. Posters about evolutionary robotics from gecco-2002-23.pdf

  2. Introduction to robot control. Slides in PDF.

  3. Example of a world for a robot.


WALKING ROBOTS.

Small walking robots, especially KHR-01.



  1. Slides on Kinematics and Animation of Humanoid Robots in PPT.

  2. High Level Motion Control Slides in PPT.

  3. Modeling humanoid robots in computer graphics. Slides in PPT.

  4. Animation for computer graphics. Slides in PPT format.

  5. David Vernon. Inexpensive humanoid robot architectures. In PDF.

  6. Paper about humanoid Robots. They also use KHR-01. In PDF format.

  7. Research in Humanoid robots from Brown University. In PPT format.

  8. Random Morphology robot - Locomotion learning. One page, interesting and new. In PDF format.


Gaits for Walking robots



  1. Gait evolution for biped robots using visual feedback. Paper in PDF.


  2. Paper about Active Balancing using Gyroscopes for a Small Humanoid Robot. In PDF.


HUMAN-ROBOT AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION.

  1. Prof. Fumio Harashima about State of the Art in Human-Computer Interaction. Much about robotics. Slides in PDF format.

  2. Lectures about Human-Robot Interaction. Slides in PDF.


ADDITINAL SLIDES ABOUT ROBOT VISION

Servos for projects.



  1. Robotic System Servo Control. Presentation of Jeff Allen as a lecturer in class. Slides in PPT.


Sensors



  1. Sensors and their role in new approaches to perception. Slides in PPT.

  2. Digital Resistive sensors. Slides in PPT.

  3. Analog Resistive sensors. Slides in PPT.

  4. Overview of sensors. Slides in PPT.


Cameras and Visual Servoing



  1. Cameras. Visual Servoing. Slides in PPT.

  2. Visual Servoing for a mobile robot. Paper in PDF.

  3. Paper by Zhang on camera calibration in PDF.

  4. Camera Calibration for 3D vision. In PDF.


BASIC ROBOT VISION.

 

  1. Edge detection and feature extraction algorithms. Slides in PPT.



  1. Labeling and sequential algorithms. Slides in PPT.

  2. Histogramming. Soccer robot vision. Slides in PPT.



  1. Walsh Transforms and butterflies. Slides in PPT.

  2. Walsh Matrix. Slides in PPT.

  3. Spectral Transforms and Image Processing software. Slides in PPT.

  4. Walsh and Fourier Transforms. Butterflies. Fast algorithms and their properties. Use of spectral methods in robot vision. Slides in PPT.

  5. Hough Transforms. Slides in PPT.


Hough Transforms and Quad Trees



  1. Hough Transform application in a mobile robot for corridor navigation. Slides in PPT.

  2. Quad trees and Oct-trees. Slides in PPT.


Thinning Algorithms



  1. Thinning algorithms. Slides in PPT.


Vision for Robot Localization



  1. Vision for robot localization by Ulrich. Paper in PDF. 


Region Segmentation



  1. Region Segmentation. Slides in PDF format.


Wavelets



  1. Slides in PDF about wavelets.

  2. Beyond wavelets and JPEG 2000. Slides in PPT format.


Tracking.



  1. Lecture about Tracking Devices for humans, for instance built into glasses. In PDF format.


 

MATLAB AND MATLAB IN ROBOT VISION.

  1. matlab1.pdf Lectures on Matlab. Lecture 1. Introduction to Matlab.

  2. matlab2.pdf Lectures on Matlab. Lecture 2. More Matlab Programming.

  3. matlab3.pdf Lectures on Matlab. Lecture 3. Finishing with Matlab.

  4. matlab4.pdf Lectures on Matlab. Lecture 4. Finishing with Matlab.

  5. Lecture on Introduction and Control Basic to Matlab. In PDF.

  6. The same lecture in PPT.

  7. Matlab Primer in PDF.

  8. Introduction to Matlab in PPT.

  9. Matlab two-dimensional plots in PPT.

  10. Matlab Script and Function files in PPT.

  11. Simple Programming in Matlab in PPT.

  12. Solution of non-linear algebraic equations in Matlab. PPT format.

Robot vision and Preception PPT SLIDES

Robot vision and Preception
Instructor: Marke A. Perkowski
Textbook: Active  Preception and Robot vision
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  1.   Introduction to Morphological Operators. In PPT format.

  2. Mathematics of Binary Morphology. ppt

  3. _A. Binary Morphology and Use in Robotic Path Planning. ppt

  4. A. Big Example of morpology and measurements on image. ppt

  5.   Introduction to edge detection feature extraction. ppt

  6.   Labeling and sequential algorithms. Robot Soccer. ppt

  7. Quad Trees and Octtrees. ppt

  8.   Partitioning and Thresholding. ppt

  9. . Shape Representation1. ppt

  10.   Image Processing for Melanoma Cancer. ppt

  11.   Histogramming socccer vision. ppt

  12. Matlab Image Processing. ppt

  13. Introduction to color image processing. ppt

  14. Matlab Image Examples with color processing. ppt

  15.   Matlab hit and miss binary. ppt

  16.   Edge Detection Algorithm by Canny. pptx

  17.   Edge Detection with Sobel Algorithm. ppt

  18.   Edge Enhancement. ppt

  19.   Convolution low pass filtering. ppt

  20.   B. Introduction to Fourier Transform, 1D continuous. pptx

  21. C. Sampling and frequencies. ppt

  22.   A. Continuous Fourier Transform Notations and theorems. pptx

  23. . B. Sampling Fourier Transform. ppt

  24. B. Shift Invariant Linear Systems. ppt

  25.   A. Orthogonal, Separable and Fourier Mathematics. ppt

  26. 2D spectral transforms. Examples. ppt

  27.   Combination of Classifiers for Indoor Room Recognition. pptx

  28.   Introduction to Generalized Hough Transform.ppt

  29.   Generalized Hough Transform. 1. ppt

  30.   A. Generalized Hough Transform 2. ppt

  31.   Radon Transform. Easy principles. ppt

  32.   Medical Imaging - acquisition and Radon Transform. ppt

  33.   Biometry and terrorists. pdf

Introduction to Evlutionary Robotics PPT and SLIDES

Introduction to Evlutionary Robotics
Instructor: Marek A.Perkowski
Textbook: Evlutionary Robotics
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Introduction to class. Mapping architectures. Finite State Machines. Probabilistic State Machines for robot dialogs. Implementation of natural language interface.
Introduction to Genetic Algorithm and Genetic Programming for robotic applications
Advanced Evolutionary. ppt

  1. Version of slides with more information on constructive induction for learning and dialogs.

  2. One more version with more details for projects.

  3. Embedded Systems.

  4. Types of robots

  5. Actuators.


more slides on evolutionary algorithms

  1. Emergent approach.

  2. Fundamentals of evolutionary methods. 

  3. Genetic Programming, Evolutionary Strategies, Evolutionary Design. Fogel, state machines.

  4. Genetic Programming.

  5. Extrinsic Evolvable Hardware.

  6. Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware.

  7. Evolutionary Methods in Design. Art. Lego bridges of Pollack.

  8. Levi. HereBoy Algorithm. Multi-Mutation. Relation to Simulated Annealing

  9. Vasiliev and Miller. Array Genetic Algorithm for Multiplier Design.

  10. Approach to evolvable learning and self-repair based on embriology ideas. Switzerland

  11. Evolving game strategies


Robot examples

  1. Robot Examples. My requirement is: the robot should have 2 hands, head and torso and should be a mobile robot.

  2. X000. Tetrix_Short_Promo.wmv

  3. X001. Intro - Lego NXT, Tetrix, ROBOTC and Motors.ppt

  4. X002. Simple programming in ROBOTC.ppt

  5. X003. Tetrix Mechanical Design.pptx

  6. X003A. Tetrix Robot Mechanical Examples.pptx

  7. X004. Robot C complete example - robot_head_1.pdf

  8. X004A. Smarter BV.ppt

  9. X005. Lego NXT complete example with NXC.pptx

  10. X006. Projects with simple mobile robots.ppt

  11. X007. Simple Sensors in ROBOTC.ppt

  12. X008. IR sensors and Encoders. LCDs.ppt

  13. X009. Accelerometers and Gyros.ppt

  14. X011. Behavior based robots and architectures.ppt

  15. X012. Affective-Computing.ppt

  16. X013. More advanced Projects.ppt

  17. X016. NQC Programming.ppt

  18. X017. NXC Programming.ppt

  19. Example of software in RobotC.

  20. Flagbot project 

  21. How to Design a Robot.ppt

  22. Class with robot project. A robot connected to quantum computer.

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