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Introduction to Robotics

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate/ postgraduate students in Introduction to Robotics.
About the course:
  • This course is a bridge-course for students from various disciplines to get the basic understanding of robotics.
  • The mechanical, electrical, and computer science aspects of robotics is covered in this introductory course.
Course Layout:
  • Week 1: Introduction to robotics- History, growth; Robot applications- Manufacturing industry, defense, rehabilitation, medical etc., Laws of Robotics
  • Week 2: Robot mechanisms; Kinematics- coordinate transformations, DH parameters
  • Week 3: Forward kinematics, Inverse Kinematics
  • Week 4: Jacobians, Statics, Trajectory Planning
  • Week 5: Actuators (electrical)- DC motors, BLDC servo motors
  • Week 6: Sensors, sensor integration
  • Week 7: Control – PWM, joint motion control, feedback control
  • Week 8: Computed torque control
  • Week 9: Perception, Localisation and mapping
  • Week 10: Probabilistic robotics, Path planning, BFS; DFS; Dijkstra; A-star; D-star; Voronoi; Potential Field; Hybrid approaches
  • Week 11: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Week 12: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Duration: 12 weeks

Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_de11/preview  

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