NEWS:
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Class: |
MW 3:00pm-4:15pm, SENSQ 5804 (Bot Lab) |
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Instructor/TA | Prof. Daniel Mosse (mosse@cs.pitt.edu) | Nick Farnam (nlf4@cs.pitt.edu), |
Office Hours: | TH 10-11am (or by appointment) | in Robot Lab, Mon,Wed 1-3pm, Thu 3-5pm |
Mailing
List Announcement
A class mailing list will be compiled, and will be used for important
announcements. It is VERY important that you be included in this list.
It is therefore your responsibility to e-mail the TA and request
to be included on the CS1567 class mailing list.
Course
Objectives
The purpose of this course is to understand and use the basic concepts
of small mobile robots, implement some algorithms in an actual
platform, interfacing
the program (software) with the machine (hardware). In particular, this
class is meant to
be very hands-on, relying on implementations and labs, while also
introducing several concepts needed to make the robots move.
Grading
Programming
Assignments
The programming assignments are THE ESSENTIAL component of the course.
If all goes as planned, you will be implementing several programs
running atop a Linux OS. In the first third of the course, these
programs will be downloaded onto a laptop, which commands the
robots. The 2nd part of the course will have to program SONY AIBO
dogs to perform several tasks.
Due dates and lateness:
Getting Answers to your Questions
Academic
Honesty: Collaboration vs. Cheating
This really should not be an issue, but to make things as clear as
possible the following is necessary.
You are encouraged to discuss the course material and concepts with other students in the class. However, all work that you submit must be your own. Under no circumstances may you look at anyone else's code or show anyone else your code. And while you may discuss the concepts used in the programming assignments, you may not discuss implementation details of the assignments themselves.
If you are caught copying or otherwise turning in work that is not solely your own, you will fail the course.
The bottom line is that you are expected to conduct yourself as a person of integrity - you are expected to adhere to the highest standards of academic integrity. This means that plagiarism1 in any form is completely unacceptable. As a (soon to be) computing professional, I encourage you to consult the code of ethics appropriate to your discipline2.
Plagiarism will be assumed until disproved on work that is essentially the same as that of other students. This includes identically incorrect, off-the-wall, and highly unusual duplicate answers where the probability of a sheer coincidence is extremely unlikely. All parties to this unacceptable collaboration will receive the same treatment.
You should bring a picture identification with you to all examinations and be prepared to show it upon request.
If you are unsure of what is and is not allowed by this policy, talk to the instructor.
1 pla-gia-rize vt. to
steal and
pass of as one's own (the ideas or words of another) to present as
one's
own an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla-gia-riz-ern.
(source: Webster's New World Dictionary).
2 The Association for Computing Machinery
is http://www.acm.org/, the IEEE is http://www.ieee.org/ and the IEEE
Computer
Society is http://www.computer.org/.