Handbook

Programming Autonomous Systems introduces students to the foundation of intelligent autonomous agents combined with a number of challenging hands-on applications. The subject will start with an introduction to the field of mobile robots. At its core the subject will address the problems of localisation, planning and control, perception, robot motion and navigation. Finally, drawing further upon a range of the intersecting fields of AI, Machine Learning, Cognitive Robotics and Knowledge based Intelligent Systems, plus an exploration of related frameworks, such as Behaviour Cloning, CHURPs and Deep Reinforcement Learning to facilitate incremental learning enhancements of control and behavioural skills in an autonomous system.