Software for robots face unique challenges, especially semi or fully automated robotic systems. This software must handle the limited computation power of robots along with the uncertainty and noise produced by their sensors and actuators. Robotic software must integrate across algorithms at multiple levels of abstraction, from the low-level information of the sensor's, to high-level reasoning. This course focuses on the design and development of the software modules and architectures for autonomous robotic systems, including reactive actuator control, localisation, mapping, vision and audio processing, and task planning. You will complete practical work both in simulation and on real-world robot platforms.

This course is taught in parallel with COSC2781 (PG)