Syllabus

See the 2023 academic integrity policy (Undergraduate) or Or the Graduate Academic integrity policy  for a complete description of the academic integrity procedure at Bridgewater.

Academic integrity will be taken very seriously in this class. All individual work must be your own. If you cheat or otherwise represent the work of others as your own. You will receive an F for the course.

Guidelines for proper academic integrity:

Discussing problems with your classmates can help you understand the problems and kinds of solutions to those problems that you will learn about in this class. In an effort to make in clear what sort of discussions are appropriate and encouraged in this class and which cross the line to academic dishonesty I use the following guidelines: You may discuss any out of class problem I assign in this class with your classmates or other so long as no one is using any sort of recording implement including, but not limited to, computers, digital recorders, pens, pencils, phones etc. This lets you talk about theoretical solutions without sharing the actual implementations. As soon as anyone in the group is typing, writing etc, all conversations must stop. You may look at someone else's program code only very briefly in order to spot a simple syntax error. As a rule of thumb, if you find yourself looking at someone else's code for more than about 30-45 seconds it is probably time to stop. If you are having trouble with your program, come to the instructors office hours for more help.

Most in class exams and quizzes are open book and closed neighbor.

Of course for your group work, your entire group is intended to produce a single deliverable and are expected to work together on all parts of that so the above does not apply to members of a group working together on their group work. On that second project (not the sprints for the first project), groups may work as closely as they wish, up to an including pair programming for all if you wish.

Standards for in class behavior:

All students  will need to abide by the University's Covid Guidelines. This semester we are allowed to relax the mask  requirement in individual classrooms, and I shall do that. Mask (medical, not Halloween) or not as you need to.

You are all adults and are expected to act as adults in this class. While questions are encouraged in this class, if a particular line of questioning is taking us too far afield, I will ask the student to come by my office hours or to see me after class.

Cell phones,  and other devices should be silenced while in class. If you work of EMS or something similar, please turn your cell phones/ other electronics etc to vibrate mode so that you are not disrupting others in the class.

In the unlikely case of trouble makers in the class, those who are simply attempting to disrupt the class will be asked to stop; those who will not, will be referred to the college for appropriate action. The BSU statement of class behavior can also be found  with the academic integrity policy above

Tentative Schedule: (I'll almost certainly move things around)

Week	Topic
Week 1	Intro to robots
Week 2	Robot basics
Week 3	Sensor data
Week 4	Effectors
Week 5	Integrating sensor data into effector behaviors
Week 6	Basic robot control
Week 7	Behavior selection
Week 8	Midterm
Week 9	Maps
Week 10	Path Planning
Week 11	Human Robot Interaction
Week 12	Robot Localization
Week 13	Navigation
Week 14	SLAM or maybe learning
Final week	TBA