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16.410/16.413  Principles of Autonomy & Decision Making

Fall 2005

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In May 1999, the Remote Agent Autonomy Experiment demonstrated a self-diagnosing, self-repairing space probe, called Deep Space One, on its way to its Asteriod and Comter encounters.

Instructors: Andreas Hofmann, Nicholas Roy, Brian Charles Williams, Paul Robertson

Graduate Graders: Shuonan Dong, Robert Temple Effinger

Lecture:  MW 10:30-12:00  (33-418)
Lab and TA hrs:  MTTh 1-3 P.M.  (33-202)
Faculty Office hrs:  M 4-5 P.M.  (33-330)    

Information: 

This course surveys a variety of reasoning, optimization and decision making methodologies for creating highly autonomous systems and decision support aids. The focus is on principles, algorithms, and their application, taken from the disciplines of artificial intelligence and operations research. Reasoning paradigms include logic and deduction, heuristic and constraint-based search, model-based reasoning, planning and execution, and machine learning. Optimization paradigms include linear programming, integer programming, and dynamic programming. Decision-making paradigms include decision theoretic planning, and Markov decision processes.

Prerequisites: 16.04 or 16.070 or 16.072 or 6.001 or 1.00, 6.041

Units: 3-0-9

For Course Learning Objectives and Logistics, please look under Materials.

Text Books:
o Primary Text: [AIMA] Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.
o Recommended Text: [IOR] Introduction to Operations Research, by Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman.
o Recommended Text: [JINS] Java in a Nutshell, by David Flanagan

All texts available at the Coop and on reserve at Barker Engineering Library.

Instructor:
Brian Williams, Rm 33-330, x3-1678 or 32-276, x3-2739

Guest Lecturer:
Paul Robertson, Rm 32-272, x3-5807

Graduate Graders:
Shannon Dong, » x2-5047
Bobby Effinger, » x2-5047

Course Administrator:
Brían O'Conaill, » , Rm 33-336, x2-1536

Course Computer Lab:
Rm 33-202 (Reserved: MTTh 1:00-3:00)

Class Email Lists:
» 16.410-students@mit.edu
» 16.410-instructors@mit.edu
» 16.413-students@mit.edu
» 16.413-instructors@mit.edu

Announcements

PSet #10. Due Date Change to Friday, Dec. 9th -

Dear Students,

By MIT's rules, all assignments need to submitted by this Friday, December 9th, for all courses involving a final. I incorrectly assigned next Monday as the due date for Problem Set #10; my apologies for the inconvenience.

We are moving the deadline for Problem Set #10 to this Friday, to conform with MIT's rules. To reduce your load, we are making problem 5 optional. I encourage you to submit this optional problem. Correct completion of this problem will be worth up to 30% of a problem set in extra credit.

Please submit your problem set answers by mid-night on Friday December 9th to Brian O'Conaill, or to a marked box that will be just outside Brian's office suite. Brian will then be collecting and logging the submitted problem sets first thing
Monday morning.

Thanks,

Brian Williams

Announced on 05 December 2005  3:24  p.m. by Brian O'Conaill

Final Exam Time Confirmed

The 16.410 and 16.413 Final Exams will take place in 33-418 on
Friday December 16, from 1:30-4:30.

Announced on 24 October 2005  1:31  p.m. by Brian Williams