Modern Robots and Softbots

Catalog description

Begins with a presentation of popular agent designs: logic-based, biomimetic, and physicomimetc. Presents foundational issues on internal robot and softbot knowledge representations. Planning and control are then covered, followed by issues of how agents can reason and plan under real-world conditions of environmental uncertainty. Concludes with discussions about papers on modern robot and softbot applications, as well as invited lectures by graduate students and faculty in the UW COSC and ECE departments. Dual Listed COSC 4560 .