16-887 Course Schedule

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2	Course Schedule 16-887: Robotic Caregivers and Intelligent Physical Collaboration (tentative schedule, subject to change)
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4	Month	Day	Day of the week	Topic	Location	Notes
5	January	17	Mon	Martin Luther King Jr. Day; No class
6	January	19	Wed	Course overview & getting familiar with a mobile manipulator	Zoom	First Tasks: (1) send team preferences, (2) read syllabus, (3) read course project statement, (4) read the Stretch RE1 safety manual, (5) know Python 3.
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8	January	24	Mon	Teleoperation, course project discussion, & project teams	Zoom
9	January	26	Wed	Team project day	Zoom (breakout rooms)	See the Stretch RE1 Quick Start Guide
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11	January	31	Mon	Expert Users of Assistive Robots: Henry & Jane Evans	NSH 3002
12	February	2	Wed	At-home Care and Aging in Place: Dr. William Mills	AI Maker Space
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14	February	7	Mon	Team project day	AI Maker Space	See the Stretch RE1 Quick Start Guide
15	February	9	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space	(first 20 minutes) Q/A with Henry and Jane Evans
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17	February	14	Mon	Mobile Manipulator Design	NSH 3002
18	February	16	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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20	February	21	Mon	Assistive Robotics Research	NSH 3002
21	February	23	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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23	February	28	Mon	Populations, Impairments, and Tasks	NSH 3002
24	March	2	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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26	March	7	Mon	Spring break; no class
27	March	9	Wed	Spring break; no class
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29	March	14	Mon	Team project day	AI Maker Space
30	March	16	Wed	Midterm Project Demonstrations and Presentations	AI Maker Space
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32	March	21	Mon	Discussions about Midterm projects & Final project introduction	NSH 3002
33	March	23	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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35	March	28	Mon	Evaluating Assistive Robots & IEEE Paper Format	NSH 3002
36	March	30	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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38	April	4	Mon	Team project day	AI Maker Space
39	April	6	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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41	April	11	Mon	Commercialization and Entrepreneurship: Prof. Charlie Kemp	NSH 3002
42	April	13	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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44	April	18	Mon	Invited lecture: Prof. Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee	NSH 3002
45	April	20	Wed	Team project day	AI Maker Space
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47	April	25	Mon	Team project day	AI Maker Space
48	April	27	Wed	Final Project Demonstrations and Presentations	AI Maker Space
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