16.410/16.413 Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making

Fall, 2004

Instructors: Brian Williams & Nick Roy

Monday and Wednesday

9:00am-10:30am 16.413

10:30am-12:00pm 16.410

Room: 33-418

Home | Lectures | Project | Handouts

Announcements

12/06/04: Solutions to the Sample Final are now available.

12/06/04: Solutions to Problem Set #9 are now available.

12/01/04: Solutions to both Problem Set #7 and Problem Set #8 are now available.

11/23/04: Problem Set #9 is posted here.

16.410 Assignment
For 16.410 students, this problem set is comprised of both an online portion and a written portion, given below. 16.410 students should log into the online tutor, and complete the online problems under problem set #9 by the due date (12/03/04). 16.410 students must complete the three problems listed below, turning in hardcopy solutions as indicated above.


16.413 Assignment
16.413 students do not have any online problems assigned, only a written assignment. Please complete the three problems listed below and turn in hardcopy solutions to the course secretary, as indicated above.


Paper solutions are due no later than 5pm on Friday, 12/03/04.
Please give solutions to course secretary Brian O’Conaill, at his desk outside of 33-330.

11/15/04: Problem Set #8 is posted here.

11/03/04: Problem Set #7 is posted here.

10/29/04: Problem Set #6 Solution Posted here.

10/28/04: "Solving Linear Programming Problems..." Extract Available in 33-336

Available at Brian O'Conaill's desk outside 33-330 are photocopies of Ch. 4 of Hillier & Lieberman's "Introduction to Operations Research".

Chapter 4 is entitled "Solving Linear Programming Problems: The Simplex Method".

 

10/27/04: Midterm Example Solutions Updated here:

Some small errata corrected in the latest version.

 

10/27/2004: New Undergrad TAs:

Igor Ganichev and Joshua Chang have graciously offered to be TAs for the rest of the semester.

Their office hours will be:

Igor: Wednesdays 3-5pm, Sundays 4-6pm at W20 cluster on 5th floor

Joshua: Sundays, Thursdays 3-5pm in 33-202

 

10/26/04: Revision: Goals Simplified for Problem Set #6 (posted here):

In order to simplify the solution of this planning problem, we have replaced the original pair of goals:
(rocket-fired)
(off-rocket)
with:
(rocket-fired)
(fuel-flowing)
The plan graphs in your solution should not need to contain more than two action layers and three proposition layers.

10/22/04: Problem Set #6 is posted here *** Superseded ***

Problem Set #6 has been distributed on Friday, 10/22/04. Solutions are due on paper, and should be submitted no later than 5pm on Friday, 10/29/04. Please give solutions to the course secretary, Brian O’ Conaill, at his desk outside of 33-330.

Note that solutions to the problem set will be posted on the web at 5pm on Friday, 10/29/04, hence, no late problem sets will be accepted.

 

10/01/04: Final Exam

The final exam for both 16.410 and 16.413 will be held on Monday, December 13th in Room 33-419 from 9am-12pm.