HRO – Humanoid robots

Lectures: Matej Hoffmann

Labs: Lukáš Rustler (Main contact person for general problems and questions Shubhan Patni Giulia D'Angelo Jason Khoury Šárka Lísková Michal Vavrečka

The course focuses on “human-centered robotics”: humanoid robots and human-robot interaction. Motivated by the vision of robot companions in our homes, this course introduces humanoid robot technology and its specific challenges and opportunities: (i) design, kinematics and inverse kinematics of humanoids, (ii) multimodal sensing - vision, touch, hearing, inertial sensing, etc., (iii) walking and balancing, and (ii) grasping. The second part of the course centers on human-robot interaction (HRI), which includes physical HRI (safety aspects, collaborative robots) and cognitive/social HRI - how to design robots and behaviors to be acceptable for people.

• lectures
• labs
• books and online resources
• schedule B3M33HRO
• schedule BE3M33HRO
• student forum

Ability to write computer programs in Python. Basic knowledge of robot kinematics in the span of bachelor course B3B33ROB1.

The final assessment will be composed of two components: lab assignments and final exam.

50 points for homework (assignments during comp. labs)

• At least 25 points for the homework (lab assignments) are needed before going to the final exam.

The final exam is worth 50 points. Minimum for a non-F grade is 20 points from the final exam.

Note that that you will need to fulfill the criteria specified above - collect points for assignments during the semester. Otherwise, you will not be allowed to take the final exam.

The exam will be:

• 90 minutes in duration
• a written exam
• will not be open book
• in English. If you feel more comfortable, you can answer in Czech.

Calculators will not be needed.

Tips for exam preparation:

• Attend lectures, make notes into lecture slides, ask questions.
• Attend the labs and study the materials.

F means fail.

With respect to CTU AI Guidelines, the usage of AI to generate whole homework is strictly forbidden. You can, for example, use Github Copilot and similar to help coding, but pure generation is not allowed. Students that will be suspected from unallowed usage of AI will be asked about the code/solution and the lab tutors have the right to remove any number of points, or even put negative points.