Table of contents

1. TO-DO
2. R&AS Program Resources
   1. Communication
   2. Orientation & Workshop
   3. Jor Searching Related:
   4. Other thing, TBD
3. Math Review
   1. Differential Equation
   2. Linear Algebra
   3. Probability
4. JD Required Skills
   1. ML/DL
   2. Full Stack
      1. Backend
      2. Frontend
      3. Preferred/Extra/Bonus Skills
5. Course Work Required Skills
   1. SolidWorks
   2. Arduino
6. 2021 FALL Course Resources
   1. CS 501 Spark SDE Project
   2. EK 505 Intro to Robotics
   3. EK 571 Medical Robotic
   4. Project Brainstorm

TO-DO

• Check out if you need to get an, Master’s Degree Specialization
• visit handshake to schedule a 1:1 appointmen, to get your resume, cover-letter, and interview ready to go
  • Go to vmock, check to improve your resume as much as you can, because they specified some rule based on many company’s ATS

R&AS Program Resources

Communication

• Administrative matters (registration, graduation, thesis, ISSO-related):
  • Anna Masland, Master’s Programs Administrator
  • mechems@bu.edu
  • You can book an appointment with Anna at amasland.youcanbook.me
  • Appointments can be in-person, on Zoom, or a phone call
• Other academic or curricular questions:
  • Sean Andersson: Director of Robotics & Autonomous Systems
  • sanderss@bu.edu

Orientation & Workshop

• R&AS Orientation, [Slides]
• Fall 2021, College of Engineering, Graduate Programs Orientation Welcome Session
• Your Job Search Timeline, [Video], [Slides]

Jor Searching Related:

• BU ENG Career Development Office:
  • Job Search Resources
  • Contact:
    • Assistant Director: Bertrand, Mary
  • Schedule an 1-1 appointment –> Handshake

Other thing, TBD

• ENG Space Access, http://www.bu.edu/dbin/eng/zaius/

Math Review

Differential Equation

Books:

• Introduction to Differential Equations
• ==Differential Equations for Engineering==, Adapted fro Coursera, Jeffrey R. Chasnov

Courses:

• Introduction to Differential Equations and the MATLAB® ODE Suite, [Video], [Website]
  • Differential Equations and Linear Algebra, https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-009-learn-differential-equations-up-close-with-gilbert-strang-and-cleve-moler-fall-2015/differential-equations-and-linear-algebra/

Supplementary material:

• 3Blue1Brown, [Differential equations, a tourist’s guide

  DE1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_di4Zn4wz4&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNPOjrT6KVlfJuKtYTftqH6&index=1)

• Standford, Shervine Amidi, First-order Ordinary Differential Equations cheatsheet
• Resourcium, Differential Equation
• Application
  • PID Control - A Brief Introduction
  • The Basics of the Nyquist Stability Criterion
  • Introduction to the Kalman Filter
  • The Euler Method (Numerical solution of ode)
• Paper
  • Partial Differential Equations is All You Need for Generating Neural Architectures – A Theory for Physical Artificial Intelligence Systems

• Cheatsheet

  • 50+ Data Science and Machine Learning Cheat Sheets

Linear Algebra

Video

• University of Michigan, ROB 101: Computational Linear Algebra, [YouTube Video]，[Lecture Note]
• MIT 18.06 Linear Algebra, Spring 2005, [Youtube VIdeo]
  • View the complete course at: http://ocw.mit.edu/18-06S05
• MIT 18.065 Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning, [YouTube Video]
• Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
• Intro: A New Way to Start Linear Algebra, [YouTube Video]

Blogs + 中文资料

• MIT线性代数课程精细笔记[第一课]
• 可能是世界上最好的线性代数教程 – 3Blue1Brown中文版

Books

• The-Art-of-Linear-Algebra.pdf
  • provides some visualization of important concepts introduced in “Linear Algebra for Everyone”, including Column-Row(CR), Gaussian Elimination(LU), Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization(RQ), Eigenvalues and Diagnoalization(Q$\Lambda Q^T$), and SIngluar Value Decomposition($U\Sigma V^T$)
• Linear Algebra for Everyone
• Advance Linear Algebra, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/flame/laff/alaff/chapter07-sor.html

Probability

• Probability Cheatsheet v2.0

JD Required Skills

ML/DL

OpenCV:

• OpenCV教程-初识OpenCV-第一篇
• 【OpenCV】 ⚠️高手勿入! 半小时学会基本操作 （25 个系列)

RL(Reinforcement Learning)

• Intro:
  • 来自DeepMind的深度强化学习大总结
  • CSDN 博客
  • DeepMind – RL Course by David Silver - Lecture 1: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning, [YouTube Video], [Website]
• Essential Concept: (Summarized in Google Docs)
  • MDP(Markov Decision Process)
  • Q-learning
  • CMDP, and RMDP
• Book
  • Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction (352 page)
  • Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning(98)
• Paper
  • [2021] Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Selective Overview of Theories and Algorithms
  • Cooperative Multi-Agent Learning: The State of the Art
  • Robust Constrained-MDPs: Soft-Constrained Robust Policy Optimization under Model Uncertainty
• Code repo
  • ==Browse State-of-the-Art==, Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
• People
  • BU Calin Belta,
    • Chuangchuang Sun, Xiao Li, Calin Belta, Automata Guided Semi-Decentralized Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, USA, 2020

Object Detection/Localization

• Yolo
  • 入门 – Yolo 一文看懂目标检测
  • v1-v3 – Yolo 一小时学会基本操作
  • v4-v5 – Yolo 一小时吃透 yolov4 & yolov5 原理

Full Stack

Backend

AWS

• Amazon S3 – Amazon Simple Storage Service

Docker

• Installation
  • Get started with Docker remote containers on WSL 2

Frontend

Preferred/Extra/Bonus Skills

MATLAB

• Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB® for Engineers and Scientists, E:\Zhengqi Dong\Education\OSU\2017 Fall\Engr1187–matlab
• My Matlab cheatsheet

Python

• Applied Numerical Methods with Python for Engineers and Scientists
• Python for Probability, Statistics, and Machine Learning, E:\Zhengqi Dong\Education\BU\2021_Fall\All_Books_needed_to_survive
• Python Numerical Methods,

Job Hunting, Interview, Cover Letter, Behavior Question

• Job Hunting/Searching
  • Summer 2022 Tech Internships by Pitt CSC
  • 2022 New Grad Careers in Tech
  • PERFECTING YOUR ELEVATOR PITCH
  • BU Job Search Resources
• Google
  • Prepare for Your Google Interview: Leadership
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
• Blogs:
  • The Top 32 Google Interview Questions (With Sample Answers)
  • The Types of Behavioral Interview Questions You Need to Know

Some Recommended Books:

• 13 Books that all engineering students should know

Interested Based

• 量化交易
  • 基础内容 (15 课时系列)

Course Work Required Skills

SolidWorks

Videos

• SolidWorks 2020 ( FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS )
• ==SOLIDWORKS 2020 Sketch TUTORIAL==
• 【达索原厂技术工程师】SolidWorks2018从软件操作到产品研发全新系统课程

Supplementary Material

• MySolidWorks
  • Training
• Machanical Base website blog,

Arduino

• Start Kit Video Tutorial, [Video 1], [Video 2]
• Master The Basics Of Arduino - Full Arduino Programming Course, [4 hr 38 min Video]
• Arduino programming API

2021 FALL Course Resources

CS 501 Spark SDE Project

• Communication:
  • Gradebook
  • Piazza
• Git-Book, or ProGit, http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
• Heroku Architecture

EK 505 Intro to Robotics

• Communication:
  • Blackboard
• Topics covered:
  • 

Important Topics:

• HW1

  • [Video] Independence, Basis, and Dimension, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeMJg4uI7o0
  • [Video] Part 3: Orthogonal Vectors, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8hEnyOiwhw&list=PLUl4u3cNGP61iQEFiWLE21EJCxwmWvvek&index=4

  • [Video] YouTube, [Jacobian Matrix and Singularities

    Robotics

    Introduction

    Part 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2YM0CDzDl4&list=PLZaGkBteQK3HQFSWDM7-yRQWTd86DeDIY&index=10)

  • [Video] 3Blue1Bronw, [Inverse matrices, column space and null space

    Chapter 7, Essence of linear algebra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQhTuRlWMxw&t=1s)

  • [Video] MIT Video, Vector Spaces and Subspaces, Graphs,
  • [Video], Spatial Descriptions and Transformation Matrices for Robotic Manipulators
  • [Video] Northwestern Robotics, Modern Robotics, Chapter 3.3.1: Homogeneous Transformation Matrices
  • [Video] MIT 18.06, 7. Solving Ax = 0: Pivot Variables, Special Solutions
  • [Video] MIT 18.06, 15. Projections onto Subspaces
  • [Slide] CMU: An Introduction to Robot Kinematics

  Other things to look at:

  • MIT 18.065, Matrix Methods in Data Analysis, Signal Processing, and Machine Learning
  • MIT 18.009, Differential Equations and Linear Algebra

• Kalman Filtering

  • Penn State ME620 Robotic
    • Kalman Filter, Kalman Filter notes, EKF(extended KF)
    • Camera models – Perspective projection

EK 571 Medical Robotic

• Communication
  • Blackboard
  • Slack

Project Brainstorm

• Wireless Hand Control Gripper, [Video], [Product Website]

Material Shop

• McMaster-Carr