Instructor

D.A. Forsyth --- 3310 Siebel Center

Office Hours: Fri: 15h30-16h30, physically at high bay, will supply zoom link

Lecture Time: WF 12h30-13h45 mostly at 2200 Sydney Lu Mech Eng Bldg

Locations: 2200 Sydney Lu Mech Eng Bldg, online, High Bay

TA:

Rahul Vasanth TA email: rvasant2@illinois.edu Office hours: Thur, 15h00-16h00, at High Bay

Alternative locations may be available

CRUCIAL INFORMATION IF YOU'RE NOT YET REGISTERED

I am willing to let people in with unusual backgrounds, etc. but I CAN'T make more places in the class. What that means is I'm OK doing waivers for open seats, but if you're not registered and there isn't an open seat, you're stuck. You could wait, but be aware that that is risky.

588 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES AND THE PANDEMIC

General practices:

Our course will be a mixture of in person and online, with the weights varying depending on the progress of the pandemic. By default, we meet as scheduled. Later in the semester we will spend more time on the physical vehicle and less meeting

Reserving vehicle time

We currently have the vehicle for Thursdays and Fridays. As the semester proceeds, we will have more time. Details of how to sign up here. Information about how to form groups and how to record who is in a group is here

Important; Important; Important

We will meet in person on or around the vehicle. To take this course, you will need to:

• Be eligible to be on university property (ie vaccinated or tested)
• Take simple safety training (coming up) and agree to comply with safety regs
• Be willing to work in a group

Key points:

• Please fill in this survey. You shouldn't feel that if you fill in a lot of no's, the course is not for you. I just want to pitch things at the right level -- remember, I make my living out of students not knowing things.
• For each lecture, there will be readings and movies on the web page. Look below at the table of movies.
• As the semester progresses, we should be able to perform experiments on a physical vehicle. I will reserve Fridays for vehicle time. Software resources will be posted. Safety rules to be posted.
• If we're forced to move online I will be on zoom at appropriate times. I will give a brief introduction to the movies, then be available to discuss the movies, answer questions on past movies, and explain matters that seem confusing. I will email out the link for the meeting before each class.

First GIF movie for challenge 2

courtesy of Bolton Bailey and Duc Phan Huy

Piazza

Not ready yet

Rough outline of topics

This is what I did last year; we'll follow this, but with some changes.

Records

Readings and movies, linked to what we have done

Homework

Homework Assignments will appear here

SAFETY TRAINING!

• All please take the online course here, put together by UIUC Department of Research Safety: go to: DRS and look under training; you should find a link for laboratory safety training. Finish the two simple online courses, then
• First block of training for safety lookout TBA. You reach the High Bay by going to the iHotel, round the conference center side, at the back parking lot you'll see a building with orange "Engineering" sign on it; that's the one, there'll be people there.
• Second block of training for safety lookout is TBA.
• Safety driver rules
• Safety lookout rules
• General safety rules

Vehicle resources

A variety of useful information