ROB 537
Fall 2017
4 credits

Learning Based Control
MW 10:00-11:15
Batcheler 250

Instructor: Kagan Tumer
E-mail: kagan.tumer@oregonstate.edu
Office: Graf 314
Office hours: MW: 11:30-12:15
Help Sessions: Shaw Khadka
E-mail: khadkas@oregonstate.edu
Location: Covell 140
Time: M: 3:00-4:00 and by appointment

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Grading :

Homework 20%
Midterm Exam 40%
Research Project     40%

Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course students will be able to:

Students with Disabilities: Accommodations are collaborative efforts between students, faculty and Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). Students with accommodations approved through SSD are responsible for contacting the faculty member in charge of the course prior to or during the first week of the term to discuss accommodations. Students who believe they are eligible for accommodations but who have not yet obtained approval through SSD should contact SSD immediately at 737-4098.

ROB 537 SCHEDULE and LECTURES:

Week Date Lecture Title Homework Project
  9/20 Course Introduction    
1 9/25 Neural Network Basics  

Groups Finalized

9/27 Feed Forward Neural Networks    
2 10/2 Search and Optimization HW 1 due  
10/4 Evolutionary Algorithms and MOO    
3 10/9 Neural Networks for Control  

Project Topic due

10/11 Project Discussion    
4 10/16 Reinforcement Learning HW 2 due  
10/18 Temporal Difference Learning    
5 10/23 Policy Gradient & Transfer Learning  

Project Background due

10/25 Project Update    
6 10/30 Deep Learning HW 3 due  
11/1 Recurrent Neural Networks    
7 11/6 Midterm Exam    
11/8 Project Discussion    
8 11/13 State Estimation and Bayes Filters HW 4 due  
11/15 Ethics, Policy, Law    
9 11/20 Planning  

Preliminary paper due

11/22 Presentation Update    
10 11/27 Final Presentations - Rog 226 - Monday 11/27 8AM-Noon    
11/29    
11 12/4    

Final paper due

Academic Dishonesty: You are permitted, and to a great extent encouraged, to work with others on homework sets. However, there is an obvious difference between constructive discussion of a particular problem and copying. Acts of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated and will be handled according to university policy. (See http://oregonstate.edu/admin/stucon/achon.htm for details.)