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UTK COSC 494/594: Course Schedule (Spring 2026)
| Week |
Date |
Lecture |
Material |
Assignment |
| 1 |
Jan 21 |
Introduction and Course Overview
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| 1 |
Jan 23 |
Anatomy of an Autonomous Robot
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| 2 |
Jan 26 |
Recursive Bayesian Filtering
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| 2 |
Jan 28 |
Recursive Bayesian Filtering
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| 2 |
Jan 30 |
Motion and Observation Models
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| 3 |
Feb 2 |
Motion and Observation Models |
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| 3 |
Feb 4 |
Particle Filter |
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| 3 |
Feb 6 |
Particle and Kalman Filtering |
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| 4 |
Feb 9 |
Kalman Filtering and EKF |
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| 4 |
Feb 11 |
EKF and SLAM |
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| 4 |
Feb 13 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 5 |
Feb 16 |
Presidents' Day (No Class) |
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Project 1 Due |
| 5 |
Feb 18 |
Introduction to Feedback Control |
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| 5 |
Feb 20 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 6 |
Feb 23 |
PID Control |
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| 6 |
Feb 25 |
PID Control and Pure Pursuit |
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| 6 |
Feb 27 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 7 |
Mar 2 |
Pure Pursuit and LQR |
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| 7 |
Mar 4 |
LQR and MPC |
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| 7 |
Mar 6 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 8 |
Mar 16 |
Introduction to Feedback Control |
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| 8 |
Mar 18 |
Sampling-based MPC and Lyapunov Stability |
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| 8 |
Mar 20 |
Smoky FIRST Robotic Competition
(No Class) |
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| 9 |
Mar 23 |
Introduction to Planning and Heuristic Search |
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Project 2 Due |
| 9 |
Mar 25 |
Graph Construction for Search |
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| 9 |
Mar 27 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 10 |
Mar 30 |
Graph Construction for Search |
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| 10 |
Apr 1 |
A* search, Lazy Search |
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| 11 |
Apr 6 |
Lazy A* and RRT |
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| 11 |
Apr 8 |
Lazy A* and RRT |
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| 11 |
Apr 10 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 12 |
Apr 13 |
Imitation learning |
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| 12 |
Apr 15 |
Imitation learning |
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| 12 |
Apr 17 |
Paper Presentation |
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Project 3 Due |
| 13 |
Apr 20 |
Model-Free RL |
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| 13 |
Apr 22 |
Model-Free RL |
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| 13 |
Apr 24 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 14 |
Apr 27 |
Model-Based RL |
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| 14 |
Apr 29 |
Model-Based RL |
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| 14 |
May 1 |
Paper Presentation |
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| 15 |
May 4 |
Recap |
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| 15 |
May 6 |
Recap/Summary |
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| 16 |
May 14 |
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Project 4 Due |
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