Final Project
The final presentations will take place during the last two classes, on Thursday 5/3 and Tuesday 5/8. You should plan a 10 minute presentation with slides and five minutes for questions. There will be no final exam. The written final project will be due on 5/15, posted in piazza under final_project.
Your final project should be a written description of your work with the following sections:
- Abstract
- First sentence: why the problem is important/hard
- Second sentence: why related work falls short.
- Third-fifth sentences: summarize your technical apporach
- Sixth-seventh sentences: What can the robot do that it couldn’t do before?
- Introduction
- First paragraph: why the problem is important
- Second paragraph: high-level summary of previous approaches and why they fall short.
- Third/fourth paragraphs: your technical approach for solving the problem.
- Fifth paragraph: Your evaluation - how you know it works.
- Related Work
- Description of related work. Describe the previous approach, and then describe how your approach is different/better.
- Technical Approach
- Formal description of the problem you are solving.
- Description of the technical approach you used to solve it.
- Equations are the “bones” of the paper. Each equation should flow from the next, explaining the approach.
- Evaluation
- What was your goal in building the technical approach above?
- How do you know you achieved your goal?
- Quantitative Evaluation: Compare to reasonable baselines on a number of representative tasks and quantify performance.
- Qualitative task: video demonstration of the robot’s new capability.
- Conclusion
- First paragraph: summary of the paper.
- Second, third, and fourth paragraphs: Future work and open problems, becomeing more and more abstract/long term.