Pyro Curriculum

Overall learning goals

The goal of Pyro is to make topics in robotics and AI easy to explore. By making robotics and AI accessible, we hope that many more students and teachers will find this facinating field one that they, too, can explore and make novel contributions to. There are many steps along this path. Each module begins with a specific set of goals, and expectations.

Course examples

The curricular materials below can be used in many different ways, in a variety of courses. You can see examples on the PyroCurriculumExamples page.

Tutorials

• New Pyro Tutorial Screencasts (videos)
• Flash movies: pyrorobotics.org/video/
• AAAI 2005 Tutorial (118 slides)
• in PDF: pyrorobotics.org/aaai05-pyro-tutorial.pdf
• in Open Office format: pyrorobotics.org/aaai05-pyro-tutorial.sxi
• AAAI 2005 Overview (10 slides)
• in PDF: pyrorobotics.org/aaai05-pyro.pdf
• in Open Office format: pyrorobotics.org/aaai05-pyro.sxi
• Workshop 2005 Introduction (71 slides)
• in PDF: www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/BeyondLegos/pyro-workshop05-intro.pdf
• in Open Office format: www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/BeyondLegos/pyro-workshop05-intro.sxi

DIY Documentation

•  DIY Documentation - make your own Pyro Docs

Pyro Modules Table of Contents

• Pyro - Back to Pyro main page
•  Beyond Legos - NSF grant that pays for Pyro

Modules

1. PyroModuleIntroduction
2. PyroModuleObjectOverview
3. PyroModulePythonIntro
4. PyroModuleDirectControl
5. PyroModuleSequencingControl
6. PyroModuleBehaviorBasedControl
7. PyroModuleReinforcementLearning
8. PyroModuleNeuralNetworks
9. PyroModuleEvolutionaryAlgorithms
10. PyroModuleComputerVision
11. PyroModuleMapping
12. PyroModuleMultirobot
13. FurtherReading

Additional Resources

1. PyroIndex
2. PyroAdvancedTopics
3. PyroUserManual
4.  Pyro Tutorial Movies

Reference: PyroSiteNotes