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