BE 107, Spring 2015

Week 1

• Tue lecture (31 Mar): Motivation (bio and engineering; 60m) + class logistics (30m) - Michael and Richard
• Wed lab session #1, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (2 Apr): Programming concepts - Richard?
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 2 (RMM out of town on Wed-Fri)

• Tue lecture (7 Apr): Mechanical design and fabrication (Floris?)
• Wed lab session #2, 7-10 pm: Solid works, laser cutter
• Thu lecture (9 Apr): Biomechanics - Michael (or Chris)
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 3 (RMM out of town on Mon-Thu)

• Tue lecture (14 Apr): Electrical design, sensing and actuation (TAs?)
• Wed lab session, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (16 Apr): Animal sensors/actuators - Michael
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 4 (MHD out of town all week, RMM might be out of town on Thu)

• Tue lecture (21 Apr): Control systems - Richard
• Wed lab session, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (23 Apr): Feedback principles in biology - Floris, with input from Michael
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 5

• Tue lecture (28 Apr): Image processing - Pietro? (or Richard, Floris?)
• Wed lab session, 7-10 pm: Arduino
• Thu lecture (30 Apr): Animal vision systems - Michael
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 6

• Tue lecture (5 May): estimation - Richard
  • Include things that might mirror what nature does (eg, DGC)
  • Kalman filtering; use in avoiding higher order derivatives
• Wed lab session, 7-10 pm: tracking
• Thu lecture (7 May): animal behavior - Michael
• HW out on Tue, due following Tue
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 7

• Tue lecture (12 May): Systems design - Richard
• Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (14 May): Evolution - Chris
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 8

• Tue lecture (19 May): Robotics/autonomy - Richard
• Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (21 May): Experiment design - Michael (or Chris, but likely to be out of town)
  • This could be swapped with animal navigation lecture
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm

Week 9

• Tue lecture (26 May): Frontiers I: engineering - Richard
• Lab hours on Wed, 7-10 pm
• Thu lecture (28 May): Frontiers II: biology - Michael
• Lab hours on Mon, 1-4 pm