About the Course
EdX is offering a free online course under the name Robotics: Dynamics and Control
About the Course:
Flying drones or robot manipulators accomplish heavy-duty tasks that deal with considerable forces and torques not covered by a purely robot kinematics framework. Learn how to formulate dynamics problems and design appropriate control laws. In this course, part of the Robotics MicroMasters program, you will learn how to develop dynamic models of robot manipulators, mobile robots, and drones (quadrotors), and how to design intelligent controls for robotic systems that can grasp and manipulate objects. The course will cover robot dynamics, trajectory generation, motion planning, and nonlinear control, and develop real-time planning and control software modules for robotic systems. This course will give you the basic theoretical tools and enable you to design control algorithms. By using MATLAB, you will apply what you have learned through a series of projects involving real-world robotic systems.
Course Syllabus :
- Week 1: Introduction and Course Overview.
- Week 2: Rigid Body Dynamics.
- Week 3: Dynamics of Robot Arms.
- Week 4: Project #1: Modeling of a Robot Arm.
- Week 5: Introduction to Linear Control.
- Week 6: State Space Modeling and Multivariable Systems.
- Week 7: Nonlinear Control.
- Week 8: Stability Theory.
- Week 9: Project #2: Control and Trajectory Following for a Mobile Robot.
- Week 10: Quadrotor Control.
- Week 11: Trajectory Generation.
- Week 12: Project #3: Planning and Control of a Quadrotor.
Outputs of the Course:
At the end of this course you will learn the following:
- The dynamics of robot arms, mobile robots and quadrotors.
- Position and force control for robots.
- How to generate complex trajectories.
- The basics of configuration spaces for robotic systems.
- Controller synthesis and stability.
Note:
Interested people from the following countries will not be able to attend this course:
- Iran.
- Cuba.
- The Crimea region of Ukraine.
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