Paul G. Allen School Courses

UW CSE Robotics - Nicholas Roy, "Planning to Fly and Drive Aggressively"

Explore advanced algorithms for autonomous aerial and ground vehicles, enabling aggressive navigation in unknown environments through rapid decision-making and obstacle avoidance techniques.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Robotics - Gaze Mechanisms for Situated Interaction with Embodied Agents

Explore gaze mechanisms for embodied agents and social robots, covering design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive gaze behaviors to enhance human-robot communication and collaboration.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Making Software More Reliable by Uncovering Hidden Dependencies

Uncovering hidden dependencies in software to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness. Explores techniques for reducing testing time, detecting dependencies, and specifying data-related test oracles.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

UW CSE Robotics - Emo Todorov, "Goal-Directed Dynamics"

Explore goal-directed dynamics in robotics, featuring a novel control framework with built-in optimization. Learn about soft-constraint physics models and their applications in various robotic control scenarios.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PLSE Seminar Series - Eva Darulova - Programming with Numerical Uncertainties

Explore automated techniques for verifying and improving numerical software accuracy, addressing challenges in finite-precision arithmetic and error estimation for scientific computing applications.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Programming Devices and Services with P

Explore P, a framework for designing and validating event-driven asynchronous systems. Learn key concepts, real-world applications, and open research problems in this innovative programming approach.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Recognizing Human Intent for Assistive Robotics

Explore assistive robotics and human intent recognition through nonverbal behavior. Learn how robots can provide social and physical assistance by understanding human goals and intentions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Lean Theorem Prover

Explore the Lean theorem prover's architecture, features, and goals. Learn how it bridges interactive and automated theorem proving, and its applications in various mathematical domains.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Integrated Task and Motion Planning in Belief Space

Explore integrated strategies for planning, perception, and action in complex mobile manipulation domains using belief space planning and hierarchical goal regression.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Deja Vu - The Story of Vision & AI

Explore the evolution of computer vision and AI with Ali Farhadi, covering deep neural networks, object detection, visual reasoning, and future predictions in this insightful seminar.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Probabilistic Models for Learning a Semantic Parser Lexicon

Probabilistic models for learning semantic parser lexicons from question/answer pairs, improving accuracy and efficiency without extensive human input or dataset-specific engineering.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Decision-Theoretic Planning to Control Crowdsourced Workflows

Explores decision-theoretic planning for optimizing crowdsourced workflows, covering POMDPs, dynamic workflow switching, taxonomy construction, and data annotation optimization for machine learning applications.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Power of Gradients in Inverse Dynamics Problems - Tao Du, MIT

Exploring analytical gradients in physics simulation for computational design of dynamic systems, with applications in robotics, biomechanics, and computer graphics.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Dynamic Robot Manipulation - Learned Optimization, Deformable Materials, and the Cloud

Explore dynamic robot manipulation through integrated planning, deep learning, and cloud computing for high-speed, reliable motions in unstructured environments.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Perceptual Robot Learning - David Held, CMU

Explore innovative approaches to robot perception and planning for manipulating diverse objects, enhancing capabilities in cloth handling, articulated objects, and transparent materials.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video