Intelligent Decision Making (IDM)

Lecturers

Objectives

  • to interpret and reason about requirements specified for intelligent autonomous systems
  • to establish relations between changes of the context and adaptation of the behavior
  • to design mechanisms and principles for decision making in autonomous and learning systems
  • to analyze fundamental properties of intelligent systems, scrutinize resulting system behavior, and to conclude on possible ways to affect systems
  • to design and implement algorithms for decision making and learning
  • to judge on the suitability of different methods for a given problem

Contents

  • Introduction into Automated Decision Making
  • Properties und Tasks of Intelligent Agents
  • Logics for Automated Reasoning
  • Problem Solving by Search and Exploration
  • Planning of Mobile Agents and Robots
  • Probabilistic Reasoning
  • Learning of Controller Functions from Data
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Neuro-Dynamic Programming

Literature

  • Lecture Material
  • Russel, P. Norvig: Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach. Pearson, 2021.
  • S. Sutton, A.G. Barto: Reinforcement Learning. The MIT Press, 2018.
  • D.P. Bertsekas, J. Tsitsiklis: Neuro-Dynamic Programming. Athena Scientific, 1996.

Recommend Prerequisites

  • Algebra and Analysis (as typical for Bachelor degrees)

Credits

2L + 1T, 3 Credits
(L: lecture hours per week, T: tutorial hours per week)
The course is offered in the summer semester; the examination in the winter and summer semester (in English only).

Course Number

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Assignment to Course Programs

Master of Electrical Engineering

Master of Mechatronics

Open as elective course within other Master programs

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