Achievement

A new WISeNet core course, "Hierarchical Planning and Sensing", was developed in collaboration with PI Silvia Ferrari and Co-PI Ronald Parr at Duke. Ronald Parr first taught the course fall 2012. This course serves two important goals. First, the course provides an opportunity to learn more advanced concepts from probability and statistics, computational complexity and intractability, planning algorithms, and approximation techniques that often are expected of graduate students but are often overlooked in the many departmental curricula. Second, the course addresses the topics of planning, sensing, and sensor planning with an emphasis on modern techniques based on hierarchy and approximation methods. 38 were enrolled representing: Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biology, and Physics. Ten were IGERT Trainees or Associates. Six were undergraduates.