Advanced Robotics and Automation Applications

Advanced Robotics and Automation Applications 3 credit　3 hours
This course is designed for graduate students and will provide a solid analytical and practical experience on a variety of aspects in robotics. Topics in the course are as follows:
1. Spatial Descriptions and Transformations,
2. Manipulation Kinematics,
3. Inverse Manipulator Kinematics,
4. Jacobians: velocities and static forces,
5. Manipulator Dynamics,
6. Trajectory Generation,
7. Control of Manipulators,
8. Machine Vision,
9. Industrial Automation Applications,
10. Laboratory Work: control of manipulators and mobile robots, automatic manipulation with vision sensors, navigation and control of mobile robots Senior undergraduate students are allowed to take this course in case they are approved by the instructor.