How do Robots Know What To Do?

• Big idea: Autonomous robot behaviors are mechanisms constructed from carefully designed algorithms and representations.
• Underlying technology: event-based architectures and hierarchically structured, parallel state machines.
• Learning goal, students will understand:
• the role of state management, concurrency and a distributed architecture in Robot behavior.
• students will be able to explain the distributed OS principles of ROS
• Some other examples of control schemes, in particular layered control
• Skill goals: Students will be able to
• Write a ROS node; write several interoperating ROS nodes
• Understand the code for the CR state manager
• Think about desired behavior in a robot and how to turn them into states and transitions