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Brandon Armstrong,
James Sergeant,
Peter Corke,
Edward Pepperell,
Obadiah Lam,
and
Dorian Tsai
Topics Covered
- Sourcing the equipment
- Connecting to the brick
- Moving the motors
- Braking modes
- Joint types
- Key design decisions
- Connecting structure and gears
- Robot design tips
- Developing kinematics equations in MATLAB
- Moving your robot to a point
- Joint movement
- Improving movement performance
- Filming your robot arm
- Submitting your video for peer assessment
- Assessing other learners’ videos
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Stem-focused robot arm construction
This STEM-focused course is a great opportunity to apply mathematical, algorithmic and control principles to build a robot arm. It is recommended you have some knowledge of advanced high-school mathematics or engineering, especially analytic geometry and linear algebra, before taking this course.
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