CS 474/574: Autonomous Systems

Spring 1999




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Special Announcements!! (check this space often)

4/29/99: Note that part three of assignment three is no longer required (due to camera software instabilities). We will assign extra credit for that bit if you do get it to work. 4/21/99: The notes on robot talk (a powerpoint lecture) are now available at http://cvc.yale.edu/misc/BurschkaMobileTalk/index.htm.

4/21/99: The notes on vision (a powerpoint lecture) are now available at http://cvc.yale.edu/misc/HagerVisionTalk/index.htm.

4/7/99: The final project's description and assignment 3 are now available from the assigments link above.

3/15/99: The solutions and results of the midterm are available.

3/1/99: The handout from class today is available here.

2/26/99: There is now a copy of the midterm exam from two years ago online. Note some of the questions don't apply this year as the course material has changed. Let me know if you have trouble viewing this.

2/25/99: If you would like to run NServer on your own Linux machine, you will need the (publicly available) license file, which has been posted to the CS474 newsgroup.

2/22/99: Here are some Cliff's notes on control in pdf and postscript on various aspects of control we've covered. You'll need these for the written problems in assignment 2.

1/24/99: There is a webpage at the haskell.org site devoted to cs474. Check it out for info from John Peterson... .


General Information

Instructor Office Hours:

Greg Hager. Office hours by arrangement. Send e-mail to hager@cs.yale.edu

(one of the) TAs:

Zachary Dodds Office hours anytime. Send e-mail to dodds@cs.yale.edu or come by the fourth-floor lab in Watson.

Newgroups/email:

Browse yale.cs.cs474, the course announcements newsgroup. For help, send email to cs474@cs

Online Information:

  • Course Syllabus
  • Online documentation for the software used in the course.
  • The scout howto page.
  • HowTo type questions that have been asked as time goes on.
  • Course lecture plan.
  • Assignments
  • Lecture Log

  • Online Documentation on Haskell, Frob, Unix and Emacs

  • Frob and Haskell
  • A Tutorial on Unix Environments (designed for CS210 students but useful if you've never used unix).
  • How to Use Emacs

  • Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ) for Emacs and Unix
  • Zoo, Zootopia, and Zoo-Specific Help Documents

  • Other Interesting Online Resources

  • Nomadic Technologies Inc.
  • Real World Interfaces Inc.
  • A collection of robotics resources on the net.
  • Chuck Dyers "interesting demos" page.

  • Copyright (c) 1999 Greg Hager, Dept. of Computer Science, Yale University
     Last modified Jan. 11, 1999.