Homework 4 - Robot Driven Cars?
Evolution and Learning in Computational and Robotic Agents
MSE 2400 Dr. Tom Way
Assignment
- Read the article "Let
the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here" from Wired
Magazine (link
is on the online version of this handout)
- Watch the video "The
Great Robot Race" from the PBS program Nova. (link is on the online
version of this handout)
- Watch the video "Google's
Driverless Car", a TED talk by Sebastian Thun. (link in on the online
version of this handout)
- Watch the video "A
Drive in the Google Self Driving Car", from Google's self driving
car project.
(link is on the online version of this handout)
- Write a response to the videos and article that answers the following two
questions:
- What machine learning concepts, including a brief description of each,
are being used to enable robot driven cars?
- Why or why not is this a good idea?
Worth
Due
- Thursday, February 11, 2016, or earlier
How to hand in
- Via Email: Send an email to me (thomas.way@villanova.edu)
containing your response to the two questions.
- Be prepare to briefly describe the topic you selected in class on the
assignment due date.