Course Websites
ECE 587 -
Last offered Spring 2026
Official Description
Recent developments in learning-based robotics with focus on computer vision, machine learning, robotics and control theory. Advanced techniques for learning policies for robots, including model-free reinforcement learning (RL) with function approximators, model learning, model-based RL with learned models, imitation learning, inverse RL, self-supervised learning, exploration, and hierarchical reinforcement learning. The course will conclude with case-studies on robotic navigation and manipulation from recent papers. Course Information: Prerequisite: ECE 448 or ECE 549 or ECE 544NA (Pattern Recognition).
Subject Area
- AI: Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and AI