3.00 Credits
Begins with a presentation of popular agent designs: logic-based, biomimetic, and physicomimetic. It then presents foundational issues on internal robot and softbot knowledge representations. Planning anc control are then covered, followed by issues of how agents can reason and plan under real-world conditions of environmental uncertainty. Concludes with discussions about papers on modern robot and softbot applications, as well as invited lectures by graduate students and faculty in the UW COSC and ECE departments. Dual listed with COSC 5560. Prerequisites: none.