Sensorimotor Learning for Embodied Agents

Catalog description

This is an advanced course that will focus on modern machine learning algorithms for autonomous robots as an embodied intelligent agent. It covers advanced topics that center around 1. what is embodied AI and how it differs from internet AI, 2. how embodied agents perceive their environment from raw sensory data and make decisions, and 3. continually adapt to the physical world through both hardware and software improvements. By the end of the course, we hope to prepare you for conducting research in this area, knowing how to formulate the problem, design the algorithm, critically validate the idea through experimental designs and finally clearly present and communicate the findings. Students are expected to read, present, and debate the latest research papers on embodied AI, as well as obtain hands-on experience through the course projects.