Modern Robotics, Course 5: Robot Manipulation and Wheeled Mobile Robots
Learn the fundamentals of robotics and mathematical modeling techniques with the Modern Robotics specialization. Prepare for a career in robotics or advanced study with six comprehensive courses. Dive into advanced topics like robot motion planning and wheeled mobile robots. Use Python, Mathematica, or MATLAB to build on a library of robotics software. Work with state-of-the-art robots using the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP. Start your journey in the field of robotics today.
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.
In Course 5 of the specialization, Robot Motion Planning and Wheeled Mobile Robots, we delve into advanced topics in robotics. Chapter 12, Grasping and Manipulation, of the “Modern Robotics” textbook covers the modeling of kinematics and forces between rigid bodies in contact, and applies the modeling to analysis and planning of robot grasping and other manipulation tasks. Chapter 13, Wheeled Mobile Robots, covers modeling, motion planning, and feedback control of omnidirectional and nonholonomic wheeled mobile robots, and concludes by addressing control of mobile manipulators consisting of a wheeled mobile base and a robot arm.
This course follows the textbook “Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control” (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017). You can purchase the book or use the free preprint pdf. You will build on a library of robotics software in the language of your choice (among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP, which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment.
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