UTK COSC 494/594: Course Schedule (Spring 2026)

Week	Date	Lecture	Material	Assignment
1	Jan 21	Introduction and Course Overview
1	Jan 23	Anatomy of an Autonomous Robot
2	Jan 26	Recursive Bayesian Filtering
2	Jan 28	Recursive Bayesian Filtering
2	Jan 30	Motion Models
3	Feb 2	Motion Models & ROS
3	Feb 4	Observation Models
3	Feb 6	Introduction to ROS
4	Feb 9	Particle Filter
4	Feb 11	Particle Filter/EKF
4	Feb 13	EKF
5	Feb 16	Presidents' Day (No Class)
5	Feb 18	EKF
5	Feb 20	SLAM
6	Feb 23	Introduction to Feedback Control
6	Feb 25	ROS & Project 1
6	Feb 27	Coordinate Transformation
7	Mar 2	PID & Pure Pursuit
7	Mar 4	LQR
7	Mar 6	Course Mid-term Review
8	Mar 16	No Class
8	Mar 18	MPC		Project 1 Due
8	Mar 20	Introduction to Planning
9	Mar 23	TODO
9	Mar 25	Graph Construction for Search
9	Mar 27	Paper Presentation
10	Mar 30	Graph Construction for Search
10	Apr 1	A* search, Lazy Search
11	Apr 6	Lazy A* and RRT
11	Apr 8	Lazy A* and RRT
11	Apr 10	Paper Presentation
12	Apr 13	Imitation learning
12	Apr 15	Imitation learning
12	Apr 17	Paper Presentation		Project 3 Due
13	Apr 20	Model-Free RL
13	Apr 22	Model-Free RL
13	Apr 24	Paper Presentation
14	Apr 27	Model-Based RL
14	Apr 29	Model-Based RL
14	May 1	Paper Presentation
15	May 4	Recap
15	May 6	Recap/Summary
16	May 14			Project 4 Due