School material

You will find below all the material used during the courses, organized day by day.

Day 1 - Tuesday 06/02

Welcome

Git Basics

Teachers: U. Pattacini

• 📖 Git crash course
• 🎖 assignment_git

YARP

Teachers: L. Natale; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• 📖 Introduction to software middleware
• 📖 The YARP middleware
• 🔨 tutorial_yarpmanager
• 🔨 tutorial_yarp-ports
• 🔨 tutorial_yarp-producer-consumer
• 🔨 tutorial_yarp-rpc

Day 2 - Wednesday 07/02

YARP

Teachers: L. Natale; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• 🔨 tutorial_RFModule-simple
• 📖 Slides joint level motor control
• 🔨 tutorial_joint-interface
• 🎖 assignment_motor-control

ROS

Teachers: B. Magyar; TA: N. Genesio

• 📖 Slides for the Robot Operating System
• 🔨 tutorial_ros

Evening talk

• ✨ "Sustainable Human-Centered Robots" by Luis Sentis.

Day 3 - Thursday 08/02

Robot Kinematics

Teachers: U. Pattacini; TA: N. Genesio, B. Magyar

• 📖 Introduction to Robot Kinematics
• 🔨 tutorial_inverse-kinematics
• 🎖 assignment_inverse-kinematics
• 🔨 tutorial_cartesian-interface
• 🔨 tutorial_gaze-interface
• 🎖 assignment_make-it-roll

Day 4 - Friday 09/02

Robot Vision

Teachers: A. Bernardino, V. Tikhanoff; TA: V. Vasco, B. Magyar, C. Fantacci

• 📖 Basics of Computer Vision I
• 📖 Basics of Computer Vision II
• 📖 Robot Vision Slides
• 🔨 tutorial_find-wally
• 🔨 tutorial_yarp-opencv
• 🎖 assignment_closest-blob

Evening talk

• ✨ "Humanoids capable of merging: a fundamental cognitive mechanism for meaning creation in the motoric, perceptual and language space" by Katerina Pastra.

Day 5 - Saturday 10/02

Robot Dynamics

Teachers: D. Pucci; TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo

• 📖 From Point Mass to Floating Base Dynamics
• 📖 Crash Course on Nonlinear Control for Robotics
• 📖 YARP Motor Control for Dynamics
• 📖 iDynTree
• 🔨 tutorial_impedance
• 🎖 assignment_computed-torque
• 📖 WB-Toolbox
• 🔨 tutorial_impedance-simulink
• 🎖 assignment_computed-torque-simulink

Evening talk

• ✨ "Data Driven Robotics and Reinforcement Learning at DeepMind" by Francesco Nori.

Day 6 - Sunday 11/02

Free Day 🆓🆒 ✨🍷🌅

Day 7 - Monday 12/02

Event Based Vision

Teachers: C. Bartolozzi, A. Glover; TA: V. Vasco, C. Fantacci

• 📖 Event-Driven Sensing and Processing for Humanoid Robots
• 🔨 tutorial_event-driven-framework
• 🔨 tutorial_event-handling
• 🎖 assignment_event-saccadic-suppression
• 🎖 assignment_event-spiking-attention

Evening talk

• ✨ "3D object modelling, recognition and tracking with an application to action learning" by Michael Zillich.

Day 8 - Tuesday 13/02

Machine Learning & Deep Learning

Teachers: F. Anselmi; TA: G. Pasquale, E. Maiettini

• 📖 Machine Learning slides
• 📖 Hands on session slides
• 🔨 tutorial_dl-tuning
• 🎖 assignment_dl-tuning
• 🔨 tutorial_dl-deployment

Day 9 - Wednesday 14/02

Group Work

TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo, G. Pasquale

• 👥 Team contest as final assignment on the 🤖

Evening talk

• "Bridging the Chasm - how to do your innovation more efficiently than I did" by Rich Walker.

Day 10 - Thursday 15/02

Group Work

TA: S. Traversaro, D. Ferigo, G. Pasquale

• 👥 Team contest as final assignment on the 🤖
• 🍕 Social dinner