Systems Design: ECE 180DA/DW
Logistics
Links
Hours
- Class: T 2-4pm (Location: Boelter 8500)
- Lab: R/F 2-6pm (Location: E4 44-110)
Staff
Professor
- Ankur Mehta
- Office hours: Wed 11am-noon
- Office: 3731F Boelter Hall
Technical TAs
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- Office hours: Tue 4:30-5:30 PM
- Office: 1538 Boelter Hall
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- Office hours: Thurs 1-2 PM
- Office: https://ucla.zoom.us/j/6634186720
Writing TAs
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- Office hours: Wed 4-5pm
- Office: 1538 Boelter Hall
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- Office hours: Mon 2-3pm
- Office: 1538 Boelter Hall
Course overview
Grading
Winter
Quarter 1
- 5% = P0: Personal introductions and individual ideas
- 10% = P1: Team ideas
- 10% = P2: Preliminary research
- 10% = P3: Problem explication
- 10% = P4: Requirements review (RR) / System design review (SDR)
- 10% = P5: VC pitch
- 20% = P6: Preliminary design review (PDR)
- 10% = P7: Stakeholder demo
- 10% = Labs: Mini-project
- 5% = Attendance & participation
Schedule summary
| Week | Recorded lectures (by end of week) |
Project deliverable (due Thu. 11am PT) |
Lab progress / activity |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [A1] | P0: Personal introductions | Introductions and teaming |
| 2 | [A2] | P1: Team ideas | Git setup |
| 3 | P2: Preliminary research | Python / coding setup | |
| 4 | [A3] | P3: Problem explication | Lab subproblem definition |
| 5 | P4: Requirements review (RR) / System design review (SDR) | L1: physical evaluation of lab subproblem | |
| 6 | L2: simulation evaluation of lab subproblem | ||
| 7 | P5: VC pitches | L3: analytic evaluation of lab subproblem | |
| 8 | Comparative lab analysis | ||
| 9 | P6: Preliminary design review (PDR) | ||
| 10 | P7: Stakeholder demo |
Assignments
All Project deliverables are defined in our lab git.
Lecture videos
Auxilliary videos
A1
Engineering in society
Choose (at least) one of the following:
- Opportunities and challenges in robotics
RSS 2018 keynote (U. Michigan) - Trust, bias, society, and humanity
HRI 2020 keynote (GATech)
A2
Presenting
How to plan, prepare, and give
a successful presentation
A3
Design for debugging
Design for debugging and
block diagrams (3 part lecture)
- Courtesy Andrea Censi (ETH Zürich)
Supplemental design process videos
D1
Design Intro
D2
Problem Definition
D3
Requirements Definition
D4
Design Methods: Creative
D5
Design Methods: Rational 1
D6
Design Methods: Rational 2
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