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About the Course

Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 1 of the specialization, Foundations of Robot Motion, you will learn fundamental material regarding robot configurations, for both serial robot mechanisms and robots with closed chains. You will learn about configuration space (C-space), degrees of freedom, C-space topology, implicit and explicit representations of configurations, and holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches. This material is at the core of the study of anything that moves (e.g., robots). This course follows the textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017). You can purchase the book or use the free preprint pdf. You will build on a library of robotics software in the language of your choice (among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP, which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment....

Top reviews

WO

Dec 29, 2021

Very Engineering driven course and you better be ready for the calculations... Made for Engineers.

Coming from an Electrical/Electronic background it was really intuitive. I plan on continuing...

EH

Oct 12, 2022

Great Course. But you need to read the book very carefully and with great focus to understand all the concepts and you should be familiar with Linear Algebra especially vectors and matrices.

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By Somya A

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Sep 9, 2019

Absolutely amazing course! I learnt a lot of kinematics in the span of four weeks.

By Ammar Y B M

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Apr 1, 2019

Amazing course! A brilliant start for those intending to specialize in Robotics.

By Onur A

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Jan 23, 2019

It is very instructive course. It builds the foundation of robotics. Very useful

By Paul O

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Oct 25, 2020

Great starter course! Covers the basics of motion and mathematics for robotics.

By Christopher S

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Jul 22, 2019

I think that this course was well done. Though it was a bit of a review for me.

By Fahim F

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Jun 28, 2023

It's one of the best courses in Coursera to understand the basics of Robotics.

By BHAWIK P

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Jan 14, 2020

Excellent choice for students who are really interested in learning robotics.

By Shaunak K

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May 30, 2022

Great course! Would love it if it solved the questions from the book though.

By Aneesh S

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Apr 26, 2020

This course is very well structured and all the given material is very good.

By mostafa h s

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Oct 1, 2018

this course very interesting it give you general idea of the robot

thank you

By Tianyi Z

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Oct 6, 2020

Great course.

It solves the problems that I did not understand for a while

By Amal R K C

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Mar 18, 2019

Very Informative. Should have included more application level examples..

By Punniyawarthana S

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Jul 23, 2020

For sure, everyone will learn something new at the end of this course.

By Kevin N

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Jun 13, 2020

Very helpful and informative course. Take much time but really worthy.

By Swapneel B M

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Jun 8, 2018

To clear your basic concepts, this course is a good start in robotics.

By D P k

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May 16, 2020

Very good course , very useful study material .The book is awesome .

By Chih-Peng C (

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Apr 8, 2020

Professor Lynch teach in a very clear way. So is textbook written.

By Rangana J

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Apr 26, 2019

Had much knowladge. Really good. Thank You Northwestern University

By RAVINDRA Y D

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Sep 14, 2020

Its nice experience to complete, first course in Modern Robotics.

By sukrita p

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Sep 30, 2019

very good course to indulge into robotics. :D thanks you so much.

By Neeraj

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Oct 11, 2021

A good course where we could learn the fundamental of robotics.

By John M

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Dec 9, 2019

This course helped me to gain deeper knowledge in robot motion.

By Julien T

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Feb 8, 2021

What a great great course! Can't wait to move on to course 2!

By Aaa A

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Oct 9, 2021

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By Justin B

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Jul 7, 2020

Interesting content and the accompanying textbook is good.