UNIT - I Introduction Artificial Intelligence : Introduction, Typical Applications. State Space Search : Depth Bounded DFS, Depth First Iterative Deepening. Heuristic Search : Heuristic Functions, Best First Search, Hill Climbing, Variable Neighborhood Descent, Beam Search, Tabu Search. Optimal Search : A* algorithm, Iterative Deepening A*, Recursive Best First Search, Pruning the CLOSED and OPEN Lists. (Chapters - 1,2,3) UNIT - II Problem Decomposition and Planning Problem Decomposition : Goal Trees, Rule Based Systems, Rule Based Expert Systems. Planning : STRIPS, Forward and Backward State Space Planning, Goal Stack Planning, Plan Space Planning, A unified Framework for Planning. Constraint Satisfaction : N - Queens, Constraint Propagation, Scene Labeling, Higher order and Directional Consistencies, Backtracking and Look ahead Strategies. (Chapters - 4,5,6,7) UNIT - III Logic and Reasoning Knowledge Based Reasoning : Agents, Facets of Knowledge, Logic and Inferences : Formal Logic, Propositional and First Order Logic, Resolution in Propositional and First Order Logic, Deductive Retrieval, Backward Chaining, Second order Logic. Knowledge Representation : Conceptual Dependancy, Frames, Semantic nets. (Chapters - 8,9) UNIT - IV Natural Language Processing and ANN Natural Language Processing : Introduction, Stages in natural language Processing, Application of NLP in Machine Translation, Information Retrieval and Big Data Information Retrieval. Learning : Supervised, Unsupervised and Reinforcement learning. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) : Concept, Feed Forward and Feedback ANNs, Error Back Propagation, Boltzmann Machine. (Chapters - 10,11,12) UNIT - V Robotics Robotics : Fundamentals, path Planning for Point Robot, Sensing and mapping for Point Robot, Mobile Robot Hardware, Non Visual Sensors like : Contact Sensors, Inertial Sensors, Infrared Sensors, Sonar, Radar, Laser Rangefinders, Biological Sensing. Robot System Control : Horizontal and Vertical Decomposition, Hybrid Control Architectures, Middleware, High - level Control, Human-Robot Interface. (Chapter - 13) UNIT - VI Robots in Practice Robot Pose Maintenance and Localization : Simple Landmark Measurement, Servo Control, Recursive Filtering, Global Localization. Mapping : Sensorial Maps, Topological Maps, Geometric Maps, Exploration. Robots in Practice : Delivery Robots, Intelligent Vehicles, Mining Automation, Space Robotics, Autonomous Aircrafts, Agriculture, Forestry, Domestic Robots. (Chapter - 14)
