IofT 1910W: Fall 2006
Assignments

[Weekly Writings   |  Lab Activities  |   Term Paper   |  Project]

Weekly Writings

Lab Activities

Term Paper

Your paper should take the form of a well-written paper that
  1. introduces a topic related to the material we covered in class,
  2. explains its importance,
  3. summarizes related work, and
  4. outlines what you think are promising directions for future work in the area and/or describes what you would do to advance the state of the art in the area.
The paper should be at least ten typed pages, well written, and free from grammatical and syntactical errors.

Essential guidelines for writing a research paper
The paper should:

Longer guidelines on writing a paper
The page Write right provides simple and concise instructions on how to write and structure a research paper. It is short but well written and useful. Please check it out.

Examples of paper topics

The paper is due preferably Tuesday November 14, at the latest Tuesday November 21. If you turn in your paper earlier, you will have more time to resubmit it, if needed.

Grading Rubric for the paper.

Project

The project is the culmination of your work with the AIBOs. You can work on the project alone (we have enough dogs) but you are strongly encouraged to work with someone else. Sharing ideas and responsibilities will produce a more interesting project.

Requirements for the project:

  1. you have to produce a working program that makes the AIBO to do something non-trivial. To quantify (somehow) the complexity, the AIBO should
    • move for at least a minute,
    • use at least two output devices (perform some motions plus use another device such as play music or use the LEDs) and use at least one input device (the camera, one of the buttons, the sensors in the paws, etc).
  2. you have to write a 1 page description of the technical aspects of the project.
  3. you have to demonstrate your project during the last day of the class Tuesday December 12 to the rest of the class. You will have 5-10 minutes to show your work, explain what your project is about, and answer questions about it.
Grading Rubric for the project.

Ideas for projects

More movies at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~robosoccer/cmrobobits/ under movies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering. All rights reserved.
Comments to: Maria Gini
Changes and corrections are in red.