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Aims :

The aim is to provide the know how on various simulation techniques

Topics :

Introduction: definition of system, model and simulation.
Advantages and drawbacks of simulation approaches. Application areas.
Deterministic models: iterative processes.
Stochastic models: particle filtering, Monte Carlo, Markov Decision Processes (MDP) also partially observable (POMDP).
Practice with simulation algorithm in the field of mobile robot localization.


Textbooks :

Set of lecturers.
R. Siegwart, I.R. Nourbakhsh , Introduction to autonomous mobile robots, The MIT Press, 2004
S. Thrun, W. Burgard e D. Fox , Probabilistic Robotica, The MIT Press, 2005.

Exam :

Written and oral exam.

Tutorial Session :

Thursday evening.