Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler.
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In Course 1 of the specialization, Foundations of Robot Motion, you will learn fundamental material regarding robot configurations, for both serial robot mechanisms and robots with closed chains. You will learn about configuration space (C-space), degrees of freedom, C-space topology, implicit and explicit representations of configurations, and holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches. This material is at the core of the study of anything that moves (e.g., robots).
Course 1 of 6 in the Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control Specialization.
Syllabus
WEEK 1
Introduction to Modern Robotics
Introduction to the specialization, the Modern Robotics code library, the CoppeliaSim robot simulator, and the lightboard video-generation tool.
Chapter 2: Configuration Space (Part 1 of 2)
Configuration space and degrees of freedom of rigid bodies and robots.
WEEK 2
Chapter 2: Configuration Space (Part 2 of 2)
Configuration space topology and representation; configuration and velocity constraints; task space and workspace.
WEEK 3
Chapter 3: Rigid-Body Motions (Part 1 of 2)
Rigid-body motions, rotation matrices, angular velocities, and exponential coordinates of rotation.
WEEK 4
Chapter 3: Rigid-Body Motions (Part 2 of 2)
Homogeneous transformation matrices, twists, screws, exponential coordinates of rigid-body motion, and wrenches.
