CDS 270: Information for Lecturers
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This page is intended for use by people giving lectures in CDS 270-2, Networked Control Systems. It contains information on what is expected for each set of lectures and directions for how to use the wiki to document your lectures.
Course Module
A course module consists of 3 lectures given over the course of a week. Each module consists of the following materials:
- A set of three lectures in powerpoint (or PDF) format that could be posted on the web
- A wiki page for each lecture summarizing the material and including references to related work
- A 10-20 page "chapter" that would be part of the "textbook" for the class
- Some optional homework exercises that interested students could undertake
When appropriate, the third lecture should be an "application" lecture in which the use of the concepts is described in the context of one of the course testbeds (Alice or RoboFlag). This is especially important in the first few weeks of the course, when the basic ideas and challenges are being introduced.
Wiki Page
For each lecture, a wiki page should be set up that documents the material presented in the lecture. Each lecture page should contain the following information:
- An abstract summarizing what the lecture is about and including key terms so that the pages can be located using the wiki search engine.
- A copy of the lecture presentation, in PDF format. These should be posted no later than the evening in which the lecture is given.
- A copy of the notes for the lecture, in PDF format. Homework exercises should be included in the notes. (This can be omitted if the material is very standard and an online set of notes is already available.)
- A reading list for the lecture. This will typically be 3-5 articles or book chapters that are particularly relevant to the material being presented. The reading list should be annotated to explain how the articles fit into the topic for the lecture.
- Links to additional information. If there are good sources of additional information for students interested in exploring this topic further, these should go at the bottom of the page.
An example of this type of page is the NCS: Introduction lecture page.
