Core Courses

Robotics Institute Core Courses:

Artificial Intelligence

• Search and Problem Solving
• AI Languages and System
• Representation of Knowledge
• Natural Language Understanding
• Perception
• Knowledge Acquisition and Machine Learning
• Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering
• Planning and Automatic Programming
• Architecture and Control

Robotics

• Planning and Control
• Dynamics and Kinematics
• Vision
• Signal Understanding
• Robot Architectures
• Robot Programming and Languages

The format of each of these will be a course with a series of graded tasks, plus a comprehensive final.

Business School Core Courses:

Management and Control of Manufacturing Systems

• Hierarchical Production Planning and Inventory
• Materials Resource Planning
• Forecasting
• Sequencing and Scheduling
• Just-In-Time, Kanban, and Japanese Approaches to Manufacturing
• Quality, Capacity, and Design Issues in Manufacturing

Automated and Flexible Manufacturing Systems

• Strategy, Productivity Measures and Flexibility
• Multi-level Production, Planning, Scheduling and Control for Flexible Systems
• Real-time Dispatch, Scheduling, and Control
• Petri nets and PLSs (Programmable Logic Controllers)
• Design of FMSs: Performance Evaluation and Queuing Models

Stochastic Decision Models and Optimization

• Stochastic Processes and Decision Models
• Optimization, Mathematical Programming, and Network Flows