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Modul RO5200-KP12

Bio-inspired Robotics (BR)

Duration:


2 Semester
Turnus of offer:


each year, can be started in winter or summer semester
Credit points:


12
Course of studies, specific field and terms:
  • Master Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2019 (advanced module), advanced curriculum, Arbitrary semester
Classes and lectures:
  • Seminar Bio-inspired Robotics (seminar, 2 SWS)
  • Evolutionary Robotics (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Evolutionary Robotics (lecture, 2 SWS)
  • Collective Robotics (exercise, 1 SWS)
  • Collective Robotics (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
  • 20 Hours exam preparation
  • 220 Hours private studies
  • 120 Hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
  • Biological basics
  • Self-organization, robustness, scalability, superlinear speedups
  • Robot swarms by land, by sea, and by air
  • Mathematical modeling of swarms and collective decision-making
  • Evolutionary computation
  • Artificial evolution of robot controllers and robot morphologies
  • Optimization and learning in robot experiments
  • Independent familiarization with an area of service robotics based on technical literature
  • Writing and presentation of an own scientific paper
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
  • Students get a comprehensive overview of biologically inspired.
  • Students are able to assess chances and challenges of robust and scalable robot systems.
  • Students are able to implement reactive control for swarm robots in simulation and on mobile robots.
  • Students are able to implement evolutionary algorithms and artificial neural networks and are able to apply them to problems of mobile robots in.
  • Students are able to name challenges of evolutionary robotics in applications and to discuss potential solutions.
  • Die Teilnehmer sind in der Lage, eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit eigenständig zu verfassen und vorzutragen.
  • The students are able to investigate self-dependently scientific publications, to analyze and understand their contents.
  • The participants can analyze and reproduce the tenor with regard to their scope of work. The students are competent to write and present their own scientific work.
Grading through:
  • Written or oral exam as announced by the examiner
Responsible for this module:
Teachers:
  • Dr. rer. nat. Javad Ghofrani
Literature:
  • Nolfi, S., Floreano, D.: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines - MIT Press, 2001
  • Hamann, H.: Swarm Robotics: A Formal Approach - Springer 2018
Language:
  • offered only in English
Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Successful completion of exercises of both sub-modules as specified at the beginning of the respective semester.

Module Exam(s):
- RO5200-L1: Bio-inspired Robotics, oral examination on the contents of both submodules, 2/3 of the module grade
- RO5200-S: Seminar Bio-inspired Robotics, 1/3 of the module grade

Letzte Änderung:
26.10.2022