Introduction to Perception and Robotics

Georgia Tech CS 3630 Fall 2026 edition

Day Month Date Module Topic Slides Quizzes Projects
Tue Aug 25 Introduction L1_Course_Overview
Thu Aug 27 Six aspects of robotics systems L2_Intro_to_Robot_Systems
Tue Sep 1 Sorting Introduction to Bayesian Thinking L3_Bayesian_Thinking Q1-- P1: Intro
Thu Sep 3 Sorting State, probability, and actions L4_Trash_Robot_1 P1 Due
Tue Sep 8 Sorting Sensor Models L5_Trash_Robot_2 P2: Sorting
Thu Sep 10 Sorting Perception and Planning L6_Trash_Robot_3
Tue Sep 15 Vacuum Probabilistic Actions L7_Vacuuming_Robot_1 Q2
Thu Sep 17 Vacuum Controlled Markov Chains L8_Vacuuming_Robot_2 P2 Due
Tue Sep 22 Vacuum Sensors and Bayes Nets L9_Vacuuming_Robot_3 P3: Vacuum
Thu Sep 24 Vacuum Inference in HMMs L10_Vacuuming_Robot_4
Tue Sep 29 Vacuum Markov Decision Processes
Thu Oct 1 Logistics Continuous State and Action Q3
Tue Oct 6 Logistics Fall Break
Thu Oct 8 Logistics Continuous Motion and Sensing P3 Due
Tue Oct 13 Logistics Markov Localization and MCL P4: Logistics
Thu Oct 15 Logistics More MCL and MDPs
Tue Oct 20 Logistics System identification.
Thu Oct 22 Duckiebot Differential Drive Q4
Tue Oct 27 Duckiebot Cameras and Image Processing
Thu Oct 29 Duckiebot Computer Vision 101 P4 Due
Tue Nov 3 Duckiebot Inference with Deep Nets P5: Duckiebot
Thu Nov 5 Duckiebot Deep Learning
Tue Nov 10 Vehicles Autonomous Vehicles and SE(2) Q5
Thu Nov 12 Vehicles Ackermann steering P5 due
Tue Nov 17 Vehicles LIDAR sensors P6: Vehicles
Thu Nov 19 Vehicles ICP and Pose SLAM
Tue Nov 24 Vehicles Planning for Driving
Thu Nov 26 Thanksgiving break
Tue Dec 1 Guest Lecture TBD
Thu Dec 3 Guest Lecture TBD P6 due
Tue Dec 8 Guest Lecture TBD FID
Thu Dec 10
Tue Dec 15 Final Exam: 11:20-2:10pm Q6++