UCSD ECE276A: Sensing & Estimation in Robotics (Winter 2026)

Date Lecture Material Assignment
Jan 05 Introduction Matrix-calculus
Jan 07 Unconstrained Optimization Barfoot-Ch.4.3.1
Jan 12 Rotations Barfoot-Ch.6.1-6.3
Jan 14 Rotations HW1, PR1
Jan 19 Robot Motion and Observation Models Barfoot-Ch.6.4
Jan 21 Robot Motion and Observation Models
Jan 26 Factor Graph SLAM Dellaert-Kaess Ch.1, Ch.2
Jan 28 Localization and Odometry from Point Features Ma-Kosecka-Soatto-Sastry Ch. 5
Feb 02 Localization and Odometry from Point Features
Feb 04 Bayes Filter Barfoot-Ch.4.2 HW2, PR2
Feb 09 Bayes Filter
Feb 11 Particle Filter SLAM Thrun-Burgard-Fox Ch.7, Ch.8, Ch.9
Feb 16 Particle Filter SLAM
Feb 18 Kalman Filter Barfoot-Ch.3.3, Sarkka-Ch4
Feb 23 EKF, UKF Barfoot-Ch.4.2, Sarkka-Ch5
Feb 25 EKF, UKF HW3, PR3
Mar 02 Matrix Lie Groups Barfoot-Ch.7.1-7.2, Boumal-Ch.3
Mar 04 Visual-Inertial SLAM
Mar 09 Visual Features Image-Features
Mar 11 Dense Mapping
Mar 16 Final Exam