Course Catalog

Robotics (MCTR 902)

Offered By:  Engineering and Materials Science Faculty

Course Prerequisites

Description

  •  Overview of Robotics
  • Mechanical Design: Design of robots, sensors, actuators, robot end-effectors, resolution, accuracy, precision
  • Mathematical Basics of Robots: Describing the position and orientation of objects in 3D space, coordinate frames, position, orientation and velocity vectors in 3D, coordinate transformations
  • Kinematics: Position and orientation
  • Dynamics: Joint angles, velocities, accelerations and inertial properties, loads on the actuators
  • Computer Vision: Overview of computer vision and robotic applications of vision, elements of a vision system, lighting, sensors, optics. geometry of imaging, projections, distortions, depth of field, digitization, brightness, color space, color depth, image formats, camera calibration
  • Robots Applications: Mobile robots overview of mobile robotics, applications, sensors and estimation, distributed robotics and micro robots overview of MEMS, scaling effects, micromanipulation, microscope optics, depth from defocus, focus measures

 

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