From sensing the world
to acting intelligently.

How does a robot turn observations into purposeful behaviour? Explore the ideas behind autonomous systems—and put them to work in a simulated world.

7.5 credits / Second cycle / Taught in English

Explore the course · Learning in practice · Course essentials

Connecting perception, decisions and action

Intelligent robotics brings together sensing, reasoning and actuation. This course introduces the methods and architectures that connect them, with an emphasis on choosing suitable approaches and understanding their limitations.

01 / SENSE

Understand the world

Robot vision, sensors, navigation and situation awareness.

02 / REASON

Organise behaviour

Behaviour trees, finite state machines, world models and task-level planning.

03 / ACT

Carry out a task

Robot skills and the integration of decisions with execution.

Action changes the world. New observations inform the next decision: autonomy is a continuing cycle.

Human–robot interaction, ethical considerations and robot learning add further perspectives on intelligent behaviour.

Learn it. Build it. Evaluate it.

Theory meets application in ROS 2 assignments. You program a robot in an apartment simulator and experiment with behaviour trees, finite state machines, robot skills and planning.

Lectures introduce the principles; supervised exercises and labs support implementation. The course software is provided in a Docker container for Linux, macOS and Windows.

Course software and setup →

Course essentials

Assessment

Individually accepted solutions to all required assignments will give access to the exam. After passing these, a written graded exam is obligatorily.

Before you start

Prerequisites: EDAA01, EDAA30 or FRTF25. Consult the official syllabus for admission requirements and formal course rules.

Teaching team

Volker Krueger · Coordinator and examiner
volker.krueger@cs.lth.se

Elin A. Topp · Teacher
elin_anna.topp@cs.lth.se

Davide Tateo · Teacher
Davide.tateo@cs.lth.se

Eren Aksoy · Teacher
eren.aksoy@cs.lth.se

Taking the course?

Use your semester’s Canvas course for announcements, teaching materials, assignments and the current schedule. Enrolment or a university login may be required.

Autumn 2026 course on Canvas →

This page is a course introduction. The official EDAP20 syllabus defines the formal requirements. 2026/27 syllabus.