Robotics

This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include actuators, and sensors, planar and spatial kinematics, multi-rigid-body dynamics, motion planning, control design, and so on.  Laboratory assignments provide experience with servo drives, sensors, interface circuitry, construction of a robot arm,  microprocessor-based real-time control, and robot operating system (ROS). At the end of the course, students will be competing in groups to complete a robotics challenge.