6.S062 Calendar: Spring 2018

Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
Feb 5
Reg day
Feb 6
LEC 1: Introduction and Course Overview (Slides)
First day of classes
Feb 7 Feb 8
LEC 2: Intro to Positioning and Indoor Location Systems (Slides 1, Slides 2)
Preparation: Read Location-based Services, Chapter 6 and Cricket (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 0
Feb 9
iOS Tutorial
Feb 12 Feb 13
LEC 3: GPS: Outdoor Location (Slides)
Preparation: Read GPS (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 1
DUE: Lab 0
Feb 14 Feb 15
LEC 4: Indoor Location with RF (Slides 1, Slides 2)
Preparation: Read RADAR and WiTrack (Questions)
Feb 16
Feb 19
President's day
Feb 20
Monday schedule
Feb 21 Feb 22
LEC 5: Connectivity Overview and BLE (Slides)
Preparation: Read IoT Gateway Problem (Questions)
Feb 23
Feb 26 Feb 27
LEC 6: Mesh and Multi-Hop Wireless Networks (Slides)
Preparation: Read ETX (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 2
DUE: Lab 1
Feb 28 Mar 1
LEC 7: Intro to Inertial Sensing and Activity Recognition (Slides)
Preparation: Read Developments of Inertial Sensing and Principles of Innertial Sensing (Section 3.1 & 3.2 Only) and ArmTrak (Introduction Only) (Questions)
Mar 2
Mar 5 Mar 6
LEC 8: Pothole detection (Slides)
Preparation: Read Pothole Patrol (Questions)
Mar 7 Mar 8
LEC 9: Wireless sensing (Slides)
Preparation: Read Vital-Radio (Questions)
Mar 9
Mar 12 Mar 13
Snow day
Mar 14 Mar 15
LEC 11: Battery-Free Sensors and Localization (Slides)
Preparation: Read RFind (Questions)
DUE: Project Proposals
Mar 16
Mar 19 Mar 20
Project meetings
Assigned: Lab 3
DUE: Lab 2
Mar 21 Mar 22
LEC 12: Map-matching with cellular data (Slides)
Preparation: Read CTrack (Questions)
Mar 23
Mar 26
Spring break
Mar 27
Spring break
Mar 28
Spring break
Mar 29
Spring break
Mar 30
Spring break
Apr 2 Apr 3
LEC 13: Map inference (Slides)
Preparation: Read Map Inference (Questions)
DUE: Revised Project Proposals
Apr 4 Apr 5
LEC 14: Agriculture IoT (Slides)
Preparation: Read FarmBeats (Questions)
Assigned: Lab 4
Apr 6
Apr 9 Apr 10
LEC 15: Attacks on acoustic sensing (Slides)
Preparation: Read BackDoor (Questions)
DUE: Lab 3
Apr 11 Apr 12
LEC 16: Habitat monitoring with acoustic sensors
Preparation: Read VoxNet (Questions)
Apr 13
Apr 16
Patriots' day
Apr 17
Patriots' day
Apr 18 Apr 19
LEC 17: Continuous object recognition
Preparation: Read Glimpse
DUE: Lab 4
Apr 20
Apr 23 Apr 24
Midterm during lecture time
Apr 25 Apr 26
Project meetings
DROP DATE
Apr 27
Apr 30 May 1
Project meetings
May 2 May 3
Project meetings
May 4
May 7 May 8
Project meetings
May 9 May 10
Project meetings
DUE: Project Titles and Abstracts
May 11
May 14 May 15
Project meetings
May 16 May 17
Project presentations
DUE: Posters, Presentations, and Demos
Last day of classes
May 18