T-622-ARTI, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 2007-1

Instructors: Kristinn R. Thórisson, Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson
Teaching Assistant: Vignir Hafsteinsson

Readings for each class are listed on the lecture notes page for each class.
Use the internal RU website for the course to return assignments.

Readings

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Russell & Norvig
- Web page for book at Berkeley
- Available at Bóksölu Stúdenta
Introduction to Software Architecture, Garlan & Shaw
Brooks, R. A. (1986). Achieving Artificial Intelligence Through Building Robots.
Brooks, R. A. (1985). A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot.
John Funge, Xiaoyuan Tu, and Demetri Terzopoulos (1999). "Cognitive Modeling: Knowledge, Reasoning and Planning for Intelligent Characters". SIGGRAPH 99, Los Angeles, CA, August 11-13, 1999

Supplementary Readings (Ítarefni)

http://www.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/autonomousbehaviors/index.shtml - Describes the use of Subsumption in a real system, with a bit of Fuzzy Logic thrown in for good measure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture
http://www.inl.gov/adaptiverobotics/behaviorbasedrobotics/subsumptionarchitectures.shtml
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (movie)
Intelligence Without Representation - Brooks.
Tutorial on Subsumption

Assignments

The bulk of the projects in the course will center around a Hexapod in a virtual environment. We are currently preparing software for use in the hexapod development. In the mean time students can explore CADIAHexapd, the system from last year - the new version will follow this implementation closely.

Thought Questions: weekly assignments for each topic where you write a question about the reading material.

Assignment	Code	Description	Material	Resources	Assigned	Due	Weight
Program 1	PROG1	Gate control & perception	-	Simple example	Fri Jan 26	Fri Feb 02	5%
Program 2	PROG2	2-level subsumption	Brooks	-	Fri Feb 02	Fri Feb 09	5%
Homework 1	HW1	Solving problems with search	Ch 3 and 4	-	Fri Feb 09	Fri Feb 16	3%
Homework 2	HW2	Knowledge representation and logic	Ch 6 and 7	-	Fri Feb 16	Fri Feb 23	3%
Program 3	PROG3	Planning implementation	Ch 11	-	Wed Feb 28	Sun Mar 11	5%
Final Project	FP	Agent for final competition	Everything	-	Wed Mar 07	Lau Mar 24	24%
Total 45%

Final Project Competition Committee: Ingvar Ólafsson, Kristinn I. Pálsson, Guðni Þór Björgvinsson, KRTh, HHV, VH. The role of the committee is to define the rules for the competition of the final project.

Course Outline

W#	Date	Topic/Lecture Notes	Emphasis	Material	Who	Due
JANUARY
1	We Jan 10	Agents I	Agents, Perception, Action	Ch 2	KRTh
	Fr Jan 12	Agents II	Classical AI, Behavior-based AI	Ch 2	KRTh
2	We Jan 17	Perception I	Vision	Ch 24	KRTh	TQs
	Fr Jan 19	Perception II	Speech recognition / hearing	Ch 24	KRTh
3	Mo Jan 22	Lab session	Chapter 24	Exercises 24.1, 24.4, 24.8, 24.9, 24.10	VH
	We Jan 24	Architecture I	Subsumption Architecture	Garlan & Shaw (first half), Brooks	KRTh	TQs
	Fr Jan 26	Architecture II	Blackboards	Garlan & Shaw (second half), Brooks	KRTh
4	We Jan 31	Lab Session	First programming assignmt.		VH	TQs
FEBRUARY
	Fr Feb 02	Robotics, Review	Robotics	Ch 25, All	KRTh	PROG1 (5%)
5	We Feb 07	Search I (glærur á MySchool)	Solving Problems	Ch 3.2 - 3.5	HHV	TQs
	Fr Feb 09	Search II	Heuristic Functions	Ch 4.1 - 4.2	HHV	PROG2 (5%)
6	We Feb 14	Knowledge & Reasoning I	Basic Knowledge Rep. and Logic	Ch 7.1 - 7.4	HHV	TQs
	Fr Feb 16	Knowledge & Reasoning II	First-Order Logic	Ch 8	HHV	HW1 (3%)
7	We Feb 21	Planning I	Basic Planning	Ch 11.1 - 11.2	HHV	TQs
	Fr Feb 23	Planning II	Dynamic Planning and Reacting	Ch 12.2 + (Funge et al., 1999).	HHV	HW2 (3%)
8	We Feb 28	Machine Learning	Overview of Learning Methods	Skim Ch 18 - 21	HHV	TQs
MARCH
	Fr Mar 02	Natural Language	Overview of NLP Systems	Skim Ch 22 - 23	HHV	TQs
9	We Mar 07	Review	Review	All	HHV
	Fr Mar 09	Bayesian Networks	Baysian Networks	TBD	KRTh	11/3:PROG3 (5%)
10	We Mar 14	Fuzzy Logic	Fuzzy Logic	TBD	KRTh	TQs
	Fr Mar 16	TBD	TBD	TBD	All
11	We Mar 21	Lab	Work on final project	All	All
	Fr Mar 23	Lab	Work on final project	All	All
12	La Mar 24	Competition	Final Project Competition	All	All	FP (24%)
	We Mar 28	History of AI	History of AI	TBD	KRTh
	Fr Mar 30	Review	Final Course Review	All	All

TQs: Thought Questions

Grading

Part of Course	Total Weight
Thought questions	10%
Smaller programming assignments (x3)	15%
Homework assignments (x2)	6%
Final project	24%
Final written exam	45%
Total 100%

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