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Modern Robotics

Mechanics, Planning, and Control

Google Cloud Training, Hanspeter Schaub, and Kevin Lynch

This Specialization provides a rigorous treatment of spatial motion and the dynamics of rigid bodies, employing representations from modern screw theory and the product of exponentials formula. Students with a freshman-level engineering background will quickly learn to apply these tools to analysis, planning, and control of robot motion. Students' understanding of the mathematics of robotics will be solidified by writing robotics software. Students will test their software on a free state-of-the-art cross-platform robot simulator, allowing each student to have an authentic robot programming experience with industrial robot manipulators and mobile robots without purchasing expensive robot hardware. It is highly recommended that Courses 1-6 of the Specialization are taken in order, since the material builds on itself.

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Six courses

Modern Robotics, Course 1: Foundations of Robot Motion

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Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? This course will teach you fundamental material regarding robot configurations, configuration space, degrees of freedom, and more. You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches.

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Modern Robotics, Course 2: Robot Kinematics

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Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? This 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.

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Modern Robotics, Course 3: Robot Dynamics

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Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? This course will teach you efficient numerical algorithms for forward and inverse dynamics, as well as how to plan robot trajectories subject to dynamic constraints.

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Modern Robotics, Course 4: Robot Motion Planning and Control

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Do you want to know how robots work? This course covers key concepts of robot motion generation, planning a motion for a robot in the presence of obstacles, and real-time feedback control to track the planned motion.

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Modern Robotics, Course 5: Robot Manipulation and Wheeled Mobile Robots

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Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you.

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Modern Robotics, Course 6: Capstone Project, Mobile Manipulation

(20 hours)

The capstone project for the Modern Robotics specialization focuses on mobile manipulation, controlling a mobile base and robot arm simultaneously for manipulation tasks. Integrating topics like trajectory planning, odometry, and feedback control, you'll develop software to plan and control a mobile manipulator for pick-and-place tasks using the KUKA youBot and V-REP simulator.

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Time

1272 hours

Level

Intermediate

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Coursera

Institution

Northwestern University

Instructors

Google Cloud Training

Hanspeter Schaub

Kevin Lynch

Level

Intermediate

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