Matei Ciocarlie
We think of Robotics as the science of building devices that physically interact with their environment. The most useful robots do it precisely, powerfully, repeatedly, tirelessly, fast, or some combinations of these. The most interesting robots maybe even do it intelligently. This course will cover the fundamentals of robotics, focusing on both the mind and the body. We will learn about two core robot classes: kinematic chains (robot arms) and mobile bases. For both robot types, we will introduce methods to reason about 3–dimensional space and relationships between coordinate frames. For robot arms, we will use these to model the task of delivering a payload to a specified location. For mobile robots, we will introduce concepts for autonomous navigation in the presence of obstacles. Class projects will make use of ROS – the open–source Robot Operating System (www.ros.org) widely used in both research and industry. Computer requirements for working on the projects will include a computer set up with Ubuntu Linux and high bandwidth internet access for downloading and installing ROS packages.
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Courses : 1
Specification: Robotics
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| Price | Free |
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| Duration | 90 hours |
| Year | 2020 |
| Level | Expert |
| Language | English |
| Certificate | Yes |
| Quizzes | No |
Anonymous –
Pretty good course. I did not finish it because it overlapped a lot with the first version that Sebastian Thrun did together with Peter Norvig. From the first several units I got an impression that the course is an aggregation of loosely connected topics (as if the authors tried to cover a lot more than they had time for), but nevertheless each topic is well explained.
Anonymous –
I only did the first chapter as I was looking for localization algorithms and I thought it was really useful.
Anonymous –
excellent, clear and easy to understand for people with some programming and math skills
Anonymous –
Wonderfully taught! Very elegant building of concepts from minimal discourse. “Show me, don’t tell me” leads to deep understanding naturally. Very gifted teacher.
Federico Renda –
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the AI techniques used for localization and navigation of mobile robots. Exactly what I was looking for.
Anonymous –
useful course for control and automation engineering and researcher
focusing in soft computing and controller design problem and introduce new techniques in control system design
Jordan Lui –
Easily one of the very best MOOCs I have ever taken. Sebastian Thrun brings an incredible eagerness to the topic and his examples are very well prepared. He dives right into the key topics of AI for robotics with great toy examples, allowing a newbie to quickly wrap their minds around the system. Then he scales up the problem a bit to add complexity, building up the complexity at a fair pace. At the end of each task you feel like you have accomplished something great.
Also, he pre writes all the auxiliary code so you can focus on the core important code, not unnecessary plumbing.