Introduction to robotics
Bachelor's degree
In Maynard (USA)
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Maynard (USA)
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Different dates available
This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning; mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots, multi-rigid-body dynamics, 3D graphic simulation; control design, actuators, and sensors; wireless networking, task modeling, human-machine interface, and embedded software. Weekly laboratories provide experience with servo drives, real-time control, and embedded software. Students will design and fabricate working robotic systems in a group-based term project.
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Subjects
- Design
Course programme
Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session
Labs: 1 session / week, 2 hours / session
2.004 and 2.003.
This course is a restricted elective (professional subject).
Asada, H., and J. J. Slotine. Robot Analysis and Control. New York, NY: Wiley, 1986. ISBN: 9780471830290.
This book will be supplemented by newly written lecture notes, which are a preliminary version of the book's second edition. While the book was originally written for graduate-level courses, the new lecture notes are primarily for undergraduate juniors and seniors, assuming 2.003 and 2.004 level background knowledge about dynamics and control.
Lab sessions are geared toward completion of two projects - a de-mining robot and a robot that finds and rescues disaster victims.
The calendar below provides information on the course's lecture (L) and lab (Lab) sessions.
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Introduction to robotics