Lectures
Schedule
We will have in-person lectures from 9:10 am to 12:10 pm every Wednesday. After the lecture, the recording will be uploaded to NTU COOL while materials will be made available here.
Slides from previous offerings are archived on the Past Lectures page.
| Lecture | Date | Topics | Materials |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026/9/7 | Introduction | slides |
| 2 | 2026/9/14 | Robot Kinematics, Motion Planning | slides 1 slides 2 |
| 3 | 2026/9/21 | Motion Planning, Feedback Control (PID) | slides |
| 4 | 2026/10/5 | Feedback Control (Impedance / Admittance Control), Optimal Control | slides |
| 5 | 2026/10/12 | Imitation Learning | slides |
| 6 | 2026/10/19 | Introduction of Reinforcement Learning, Dynamic Programming, Monte Carlo, Temporal Difference | slides 1 slides 2 |
| 7 | 2026/10/27 | Deep RL (Q learning, Policy Gradient) | TBD |
| 8 | 2026/11/2 | Offline RL, Challenges of Real-world RL | TBD |
| 9 | 2026/11/9 | Model-based RL | TBD |
| 10 | 2026/11/16 | Zero-shot RL, Intelligent exploration | TBD |
| 11 | 2026/11/23 | Visual Imitation Learning, Inverse RL, Reward Learning | TBD |
| 12 | 2026/11/30 | Sim2real transfer, Real2Sim2Real Learning, Adaptation | TBD |
| 13 | 2026/12/14 | Special topic: Bimanual Dexterous Manipulation and Mobile Manipulation | TBD |