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