CS475 - Artificial Intelligence I (Homework Announcements, Deadline, etc.)

• First homework: Due on 12 am of January 23 (Thursday, next week)
  • Read Chapter 1.
  • Read Chapter 2.
  Imagine that you want to develop one of the following:
  • a vacuum robot for cleaning home
  • or an unmanned vehicle for high way travel
  • or a robot that plays goal-keeper (midfield, attack, defend) in soccer
  • or a robot that plays ping pong
  • or a robot that takes care of baby under 1 year old
  • or something that you invent
  Discuss the prior knowledge, past experience, goals, observations, and possible useful subtasks of your robot. List at least four items in each of the categories.
• Second homework: Due on February 7 (Friday) 12 am
  • Exercise 2.1 (10 points)
  • Exercise 2.3 (5 points)
  • Exercise 2.4 (15 points).
  • TA's answer
• Third homework: Due on February 14 (Friday) 12 am
  • Exercise 2.8 (20 points)
  • Exercise 2.9 (10 points)
  • TA's answer

FIRST MIDTERM - February 14, 2003 - Here is the solution.

• Fourth homework: Due on February 24 (Monday) 12:01 am
  • Exercise 3.1 (10 points)
  • (30 points) Read section 3.6 in the book. Use the code provided by the authors and do the exercise recommended by the authors:
    • Exercises: fix up the knowledge base so that a student cannot count core cours es as electives.
    • Explain why the inequality is needed at the end of the definition of fulfilled electives.
    • Explain why enough_units constructs a list of the courses taken. What could be the major efficiency problem with this procedure? How can this be fixed?
  • TA's answer

• Eclipse Prolog: Eclipse Prolog is free for and can be downloaded from Eclipse Web Site. I downloaded it and have it here for you to use (this link will be removed after a period of time). The following files are needed:
  • Basic Eclipse
  • Eclipse Misc
  • Eclipse RT
  • Eclipse Documentation
  • Tcl for Eclipse
  Download the files, unzip them, and follow the instruction to install Eclipse on your computer.

• Fifth homework: Due on March 6 (Thursday) 11:59 pm
  • Exercise 4.5 (30 points)
  • Think about: Exercises 4.3, 4.4 (Solution to 4.4 is here)
  • TA's answer

• Sixth homework: Due on March 16 (Sunday) 11:59 pm
  • Exercise 4.12 and 4.13 (30 points) - Here are the program csp.pl (modified for run in Eclipse) and some of the test programs csp_test1.pl, csp_test2.pl, and csp_test3.pl from the book.
  • Think about: Exercises 4.11, 4.14
  • TA's answer

SECOND MIDTERM - March 19, 2003 - Here is the solution.

• Seventh homework: Due on April 7 (Monday) 11:59 pm
  • Exercises 5.1 and 5.2 (40 points)
  • TA's answer (will not be available before the deadline)

• Eighth homework: Due on April 14 (Monday) 11:59 pm
  Exercises 7.3 and 7.4 (40 points)
  • TA's answer (will not be available before the deadline)

• Project Description: Due on the day of the final exam. Here is the description of the project.

• Nineth homework: (60 points) Due on May 2 (Friday) 11:59 pm. Here is the text of the homework.