I am no longer teaching this course
The Adaptive Robotics course provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging field of biologically inspired, and self-organizing autonomous robotics. Examples of this new approach include artificial evolution, neural networks, dynamical systems, swarm intelligence, active vision, and artificial life. Each lecture covers one such topic in depth introducing the main theories and recent research, while lab sessions provide students with the opportunity to try out these approaches on a variety of tasks using real robots.
The course text is: Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence by Dario Floreano & Claudio Mattiussi
To be eligible to take this course students must have completed a neural networks course
Adaptive Robotics is a MSc level course worth 7.5 ECTS
Students will also take part in the ratslife programming competition
Lecture slides, handouts, and lab material will be made available during the course from the official course website
