KON 318E - Introduction to Robotics

Course Objectives

1. To teach students to understand the importance of the robotics systems in control and automation systems.
2. To teach student to develop kinematic and dynamic models of robot manipulators
3. To teach students to develop motion planning and basic control techniques for robot manipulators
4. To provide experience in using software packages to solve control engineering problems.
5. To provide practice for developing critical thinking skills and solving open ended problems.

Course Description

Introduction, Rigid motions. Homogeneous transformations. Robot forward kinematics. Robot inverse kinematics. Differential kinematics and Jacobeans. Motion planning and trajectory generation. Robot dynamics. Mobile robots. Independent joint control. Robot sensors and actuators.