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Walk the hill

From your first route at the kitchen to twenty dinners at the summit. Fly your drone from week to week up the hill, then enter a lecture, tutorial or lab.

The list below follows the same course trail. On a desktop with a mouse or trackpad, widen the window to at least 900 px to explore the hill.

Kitchen → Summit · twelve weeks

Enter Week 1 to begin at the kitchen.

Fly with W A S D and hover over a week for 2 seconds to open it. Enter also opens the nearby stop.

  1. W1–3Find a route
  2. W4Bring it home
  3. W5–6Plan the orders
  4. W7–8Share the work
  5. W9–12Fly together

Week 1 of 12

One order, a complete task

Why a line from the kitchen to the customer is not yet a problem definition: graph, state, legal edges, goal and cost.

The hill as a list

Choose a week, then a lecture, tutorial or lab. The assignments bring each half of the course together.

  1. W1One order, a complete task
  2. W2Dijkstra: when to stop
  3. W3A*: a useful estimate
  4. W4A route that can return
  5. W5Which dinner goes first?
  6. W6When swaps stop helping
    Assignment 1 · 30%Bring routes, energy and ordering together →
  7. W7Choose a capable drone
  8. W8Who gets the charging pad?
  9. W9Two drones, one corridor
  10. W10Search around a reservation
  11. W11Let delays change the assignment
  12. W12Audit the twenty dinners
    Assignment 2 · 50%Bring the whole fleet together →