Course 'Design and Organisation of Autonomous Systems'
This is the information of year 2008
The project-sites of the previous years
are 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
The objective of the course 'Design and Organisation of Autonomous Systems' are
- To know the concepts that are important in the design of
Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
- To understand the problems that are to be solved.
- To identify the solutions found.
- To create a reference framework to situate future developments.
Format
At the first day, we will give a small workshop with some background of the research that is related to the assignments. For a month,
the
students will work in small groups on a specific project assignment on one of our laboratory systems, closely supervised by one of our senior researchers.
Project assignment
The assignment will be a case study in designing and integrating a new algorithm in an existing autonomous system. During the project, the following aspects are important:
- Perform a literature study to get acquinted with the existing autonomous system and the state-of-the-art on the subject of the new algorithm.
- Make a clear assignment of tasks to the members of the team.
- Document the technical progress during the project.
- Finalize the project with an article and review the articles of the others.
- Present the results of the project on a mini-conference with external invites.
Groups
In 2008, we have the following assignments:
- Map exploration with a AirRobot
Arnoud Visser
Final article:
Gideon Maillette de Buy Wenniger, Tijn Schmits,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, November 6, 2008.
- Looking-at-people
Dariu Gavrila and Michael Hoffman
Final article:
Paul Koppen, Nicholas Piël and Štefan Konecny
Universiteit van Amsterdam, February 6, 2008
- Exploiting time-coherences
for autonomous vehicle vision tasks
Wannes van de Mark and Gijs Dubbeldam
Final article:
Paul Adriani, David de Bos, Mark Kroon and Spiros Koulouz,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, January 31, 2008.
Schedule
Three times plenair meetings will be scheduled.
- week 2: kick-off meeting (Monday 7th, 11:00-17:00), Kruislaan 403, room F0.09.
- week 3: progress meeting (Tuesday 15th, 15:00-17:00), Kruislaan 403, room F0.13
- week 5: deadline draft article (Monday 28th, 9:00, pdf on website)
- week 5: deadline review article (Tuesday 29th, 12:00, see form)
- week 5: deadline final article (Thursday 31th, 16:00, pdf on website)
- week 5: mini-conference (Friday 1st, 10:00-14:00), Kruislaan 403, room F0.13.
This schedule replaces the single event in the official schedule.
More details will be explained at the kick-off meeting.
The kick-off meeting at Monday January 7th will have the following schedule:
| time |
subject |
lecturer |
| 11:00 -11:15
| introduction to the DOAS project
| Frans Groen
|
| 11:15 - 11:30
| description of the project: Map exploration with an AirRobot
| Arnoud Visser
|
| 11:30 - 11:45
| description of the project: Looking-at-people
| Michael Hoffman
|
| 11:45 -12:00
| description of the project: Exploiting time-coherences for autonomous vehicle vision tasks
| Gijs Dubbelman
|
| 12:00 - 13:00
| lunch
|
|
| 13:00 - 14:00
| state of the art in Airial Map exploration
| Arnoud Visser
|
| 14:00 - 15:00
| state of the art in Looking-at-people
| Michael Hoffman
|
| 15:00 - 16:00
| state of the art in Vision for autonomous vehicles
| Gijs Dubbelman
|
| 16:00 - 16:15
| formation of the project groups
|
|
Evaluation
The course was overall evaluated by the participants with as good to excellent.
