Artificial Life Course Autumn 2003

Lectures

Wed 12:00 rm ARUN-401 and
Wed 13:00 rm ARUN-401 (N.B. was Thu 12:00 rm ARUN-401 in weeks 1/2)

Notes for each lecture will be available from this page, below.

There will be a Genetic Algorithm exercise as coursework, to hand in by Nov 5th (see below). There will also be an exercise following on from the robot lab classes in week 4. You will get feedback on these.

The assessment for the course is based on a programming project (of your choice, subject to agreement that it is suitable) plus a 3,500 word essay, to be handed in by 12:00 on Monday 12th Jan 2004. For your guidance, some project ideas are suggested in a link below, and the official guidelines for what is assessed in marking these projects is also given.

Autonomous Systems Lab

Web-page for the lab is here. An unofficial Idiot's Guide to starting to use the PCs in there is here.

Seminars

You will be in one of 4 groups:-
"Group A" Wed 10:00 PEV1-2A1 (N.B. was in PEV1-2B13)
"Group B" Thu 10:00 ARUN-1A (N.B. was Wed 11:00 PEV1-2B13 in weeks 1/2)
"Group C" Thu 11:00 PEV1-1A3
"Group D" Fri 12:00 PEV1-2B13

For all details of seminars click here. Seminar reading here.

Robot Lab Classes

In week 4 (last week of October) instead of seminars there are Robot Lab Classes.

Web versions of Lecture notes

These will be added below as we go. If you want to look ahead, you could consult the full set of last year's notes available here but there may be some changes this year.

Note: some formatting etc may get garbled in translating from Powerpoint to web pages. Original Powerpoint slides are available here .

Genetic Algorithm Exercise to hand in on Wed Nov 5th
Ideas for Projects
Guidelines for how Projects are marked

Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Lecture 16
Lecture 17
Guest Lecture 18
Lecture 19

Inman Harvey
EASy Course Director

Email: inmanh@sussex.ac.uk
Phone: (+44) 1273 678431
Fax: (+44) 1273 671320
Office: COGS rm 5C12