Course overview
This course focuses on robotic manipulators and is supplemented by advanced robotics topics. Robotic manipulator course topics include: classification of robotic systems; transformation of coordinates; kinematics and inverse kinematics; Jacobians and robot dynamics; trajectory generation; modelling; and, control. Advanced robotics topics may include: safety issues; wheeled mobile robots; machine vision basics; robot plume tracing, mobile robot trajectory generation; robotics in mining; kalman filtering; robotic arm calibration; and other new robotics related developments.
Course learning outcomes
- Explain the basics of robotic systems
- Define the needs, acquire necessary information and select appropriate robots for various industrial applications
- Explain robot design and development processes, and their vast applications
- Apply the knowledge learned for the design and development of simple robotic aspects
- Explain the principles of and apply robot kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, trajectory generation and control
- Explain the basics of other robotic topics covered in the course (i.e. machine vision, mobile robot, etc)
- Recognise the responsibility of engineers for the safety issues and the importance associated with the use of robots for various applications
- Demonstrate the ability to work in team based small projects and effectively use interpersonal communication skills to produce productive solution
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