Week 1 Course Overview/Agent Types Planning agents BDI Agents (PO)MDP Agents Subsumption Architectures The UNSW RoboCup agent System Overview Week 2 The Hardware - AIBO The OS - OPEN-R Week 3 Vision Low Level Colour High Level Sanities Distance to objects Close-in ball localization Week 4 Localization Bayesian Localization Tables Particle Filters Kahlman-Bucy filters Week 5 Motion Head Control Walking Quaternions Week 6 Behaviours Hysteresis Ball Tracking Reactive Behaviour Hierarchies Week 7 Other Agent Types Introduction to Representation and Search BFS/DFS Discretization First Order Continuous - RRTs Plan space/policy search A* Search Mixing Search and Heuristics (Korf) Week 8 Planning agents STRIPS style planning Partial Order planning Week 9 (could be dropped if lacking time) Heirarchical Task Net planning RAPs SATPlan Heuristic Planning Logic Based Planning GoLog Week 10 (could be dropped if lacking time) BDI Agents Cognitive Architectures SOAR Act-R Week 11 (PO)MDP agents Markov Decision Processes Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes Week 12 Reinforcemnt Learning Function approximation Hierarchical RL Policy Gradient Methods Other Possible Topics Other Search Function Minimization (Chapter 10 NR in C) Genetic Search Simulated Annealing Adversarial Agents Minimax search Stochastic policies Best response learning Multi-Agent Issues Distributed Data Fusion