Temporal Planning in Space Brian C. Williams 16.412J/6.834J based on \Handling Time: February 23rd, 2004 Constraint-based Interval Planning,\ by David E. Smith Outline Operational Planning for the Mars Exploration Rovers
Fault Aware Systems: Model-based Programming and Diagnosis Brian C. Williams 16.412J/6.834J March 8th, 2004 courtesy of JPL Four launches in 7 months MERS CSAIL
Mapping Topics: Topological Maps SLAM HMMs Revisited Additional reading: B. J. Kuipers Y.-T. Byun. 1991. \A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial rep rstations. jour. s and
Model-based Diagnosis a failure is a discrepancy between the model and observations of an artifact a diagnosis restores consistency 1. Enumerate candidates in order of likelihood
Using the Forest to See the Trees: Context-based Object Recognition Bill Freeman Joint work with Antonio Torralba and Kevin Murphy Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT computer vision goal Recognize many different objects under many viewing conditions in unconstrained settings
Fast Solutions to CSPs Presented by: Robert Effinger Dan Lovell Presented To: 16.412J Cognitive Robotics MIT References: \Dynamic Backtracking\ Matthew L. Ginsberg, CIRL, University of Oregon Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 1(1993)