Andrew's Goals for the Semester

[andrewrosemberg]

📘 What do I expect to learn from this class?

During this semester, I expect to learn:

• 🧑‍🏫 How to prepare, organize, and teach a class while keeping it (somewhat) engaging! (Expected Class: 01)
• 🦿🔋 How to model and solve a trajectory optimization problem for a general legged robot and battery systems. (Expected Classes: 05, 06, 09)
• 🤖 How to embed a control policy on a physical robot. (Expected Class: 06; Personal Project)
• 🧠⚙️ How to approximate the dynamics of complex systems and embed them in an optimization workflow. (Expected Classes: 10–13)

🛠️ Issues that I want to solve

• ⚡ Batch-solve and evaluate optimization problems on GPU. (BatchNLPKernels Project)

  • 🔓 What it will unlock: faster training of control policies.

• 🧰 Model the entire trajectory optimization problem in JuMP. (RigidBodyDynamics PR)

  • 🔑 What it will unlock: direct compatibility with my policy training framework (Two Stage General DecisionRules).

[andrewrosemberg]

How to prepare, organize, and teach a class while keeping it (somewhat) engaging!

Feedback Lecture 01:

• Correctness of the content: 5/5
• Clarity of the deliverance: 4/5
• How engaging was the class: 5/5
• How could I do better? (Paraphrased) "Cut the content of the in-person lecture and focus on what you want the audience to learn. Have a break in the middle of the lesson."