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The course is challenging because he put quite a lot of stuff into a single course. I found that while some of the math were complex, they were quite manageable with a bit of extra effort outside of class. He also post pre-view videos and recorded videos, making it accessible. Impressed by high quality final projects. I recommend this course.Rate My Professors ↗
601 is hard. The TA is nice. The midterm is impossibly hard. The syllabus is too full and very math dense and not related to the homework. But the grading is okay, as there are extra credits. He is a very research guy. If you want to do some research on robotics this is definitly a good class to take and Xiong is a good researcher to talk to.Rate My Professors ↗
Lectures were rambling nonsense and never applicable to the homework. Xiaobin straight up told us that the exam was going to be nothing like the homework's and every single homework took hours and hours to complete. The practice exam problems never looked like the actual exam and the average scores on tests were 15 pts lower than the other class.Rate My Professors ↗
The course is really challenging. Fortunately, it covers enough topics in robot motion like modeling, planning, control, estimation. Prof. Xiong and his student worked really hard to create and provide this course.Rate My Professors ↗
This course is likely to be the only math deep ROBOTICS course in this university. The course is very difficult to me since I am a first year ms student with no robotics background. Prof. Xiong wants to present as much as he could, so a little too much math I guess. Be prepared. I never regret taking it.Rate My Professors ↗
Xiaobin was one of the worst professors I have had. Attending lecture was less than helpful, but unfortunately it was mandatory. He does not know how to teach, and highly prioritizes his research over teaching. Lectures consisted of him going on tangents about the slides while scribbling on them incomprehensively and mumbling at the front.Rate My Professors ↗
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