Covers the general logistics, course rationale, prerequisites, organization, credits, workload, grading, and course content, including swarm intelligence, foraging strategies, and collective phenomena.
Explores Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) for routing and optimization, discussing constructive heuristics, local search, pheromone mechanisms, and real-world applications.
Explores turning bumper cars into unbumping ones through collision avoidance algorithms and the challenges faced when implementing ellipsoid barrier functions.
Explores inverse design optimization in geometric computing, covering topics such as deployable structures, material-aware design, and programmed materials.
