PEC-CSEL AI and Robotics 3L:0T: 0P 3 Credits
Objectives of the course
1. To expose students to the concepts and issues of Artificial intelligence.
2. The objective of the course is to facilitate the student with the idea of how AI
work and role of human interaction.
Detailed contents
UNIT 1:
Meaning and definition of artificial intelligence, Foundation and history of AI, Architecture
of AI, Logic family, Classification of logic, Various types of Production systems,
Characteristics of production systems, Production rules, The working memory, Recognize act
cycle, Conflict resolution strategies, Refractoriness, Recency, Specificity, Alternative
approach for conflict resolution by meta rules architecture of production system.
UNIT 2:
AI problems and techniques-AI programming languages, Introduction to LISP - problem
spaces and searches, Heuristic function, AND OR graph, OR graph, Heuristic search, Blind
search strategies, Breadth first- Depth first- heuristic search techniques Hill climbing: best
first- A * algorithm AO* algorithm examples- game tree, Min max algorithms, Game
playing- alpha beta pruning, Knowledge representation, Knowledge representation issues,
Problems in representing knowledge, Knowledge representation using propositional and
predicate logic, Logic programming, Semantic nets- frames and inheritance, Constraint
propagation, Resolution and refutation, Deduction, Theorem proving.
UNIT 3:
Introduction to reasoning, Reasoning under uncertainty, Review of probability, Baye’s
probabilistic interferences and Dempster shafer theory, Heuristic methods, Symbolic
reasoning under uncertainty, Statistical reasoning, Fuzzy reasoning, Temporal reasoning, Non
monotonic reasoning, Various types of slot and filler structures like semantic networks,
Frames, Conceptual dependency, Scripts etc. Planning, Planning in situational calculus,
Representation for planning, Partial order planning algorithm, Learning from examples,
Discovery as learning, I earning by analogy, Explanation based learning, Neural nets, Genetic
algorithms.
UNIT 4:
Principles of Natural language processing, Rule based systems architecture, Expert systems,
Knowledge acquisition concepts, AI application to robotics, And current trends in intelligent
systems. logic programming with prolog: logic program, Horn clause, Program for scene
interpretation, Unification of goals SLD resolution, SLD tree, Flow of satisfaction,
Controlling backtracking using CUT, Common use of CUT, Implementation of backtracking,
Fail predicate, Application of cut fail combination.
Suggested books
Rich Elaine and Knight Kevin, Artificial Intelligence, Tata McGraw Hill Edition
Russell & Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 1995, Prentice
Hall
Charniak Eugene and McDermott Drew, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence,
Addison Wesley
Konar A, Artificial intelligence and Soft Computing-behavioral and cognitive
modeling of human brain, CRC press, USA
Nilson Nils J, Principles of Artificial Intelligence
