CMSC477

Robotics Perception and Planning

A hands-on introduction to perception and planning for robotics, including rigid body transformations and rotations, dynamics and control of mobile robots/drones, graph based and sampling based planning algorithms, Bayseian and Kalman filtering, camera models and calibration, projective geometry, visual features, optical flow, pose estimation, RANSAC and Hough transform, structure from motion, visual odometry, machine learning basics, visual recognition and learning.

Spring 2026

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Spring 2025

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Average rating: 4.00

Past Semesters

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.83 between 121 students*

CMSC477 Grade Distribution+-051015202530354045505560657075808590% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 13.22%
A: 35.54%
A+: 38.02%
B-: 4.96%
B: 1.65%
B+: 6.61%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.