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Brandon Armstrong, James Sergeant, Peter Corke, Edward Pepperell, Obadiah Lam, and Dorian Tsai

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  • 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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