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CS 498: Introduction to Planning Algorithms

Fall 2006 TuTh 12:30-1:45 Room 1111 Siebel Center
http://msl.cs.uiuc.edu/$\sim$lavalle/cs498/
Registration: 40091 (3 hrs), 40092 (4 hrs) Instructor: Steve LaValle


Motivation: Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. This course is intended for computer scientists and engineers with interests in robotics, artificial intelligence, robotics, control theory, and the connections between them. The course focuses mainly on the modeling, algorithmic, and computational issues that arise when designing autonomous decision makers.

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Tentative Topics
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Textbook: Planning Algorithms, S. M. LaValle, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Also available for free download at http://planning.cs.uiuc.edu/. Most of the material will come from Chapters 2 and 9-12.




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