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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 Bruno C F

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Apr 1, 2020

thanks for this great course !

By Shawn J D

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Oct 22, 2018

Lovely course. Really helpful

By Thilina W

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Nov 29, 2019

Great well-structured Course

By V R T

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May 29, 2022

Really helpful and didatic

By Mukesh G

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Dec 23, 2020

Basic course for robotics

By ngabonziza b

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Jan 30, 2021

this course was awesome

By Abhinav R

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Jan 21, 2020

Superbly Informative.

By Shubham T

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Apr 29, 2020

Well planned course.

By Darkhan M

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Oct 10, 2021

Everything is clear

By LI Z

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Aug 13, 2021

really nice course

By Mohamed I M A E

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Dec 4, 2022

Very useful course

By Mohammed A A K

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Sep 11, 2021

lots of Math .....

By Mrityunjay S

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May 21, 2021

Very Knowledgeble

By KUNAL D

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Aug 16, 2020

Eexcellent course

By Betelihem M

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Oct 19, 2022

Thanks a lot !

By Akshat B

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Jan 7, 2020

Great Course!

By MAXIMILIANO A R L

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Sep 26, 2023

Good course.

By Mykhailo S

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Sep 8, 2021

Nice course!

By Mohammad B

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Aug 12, 2020

It was great

By Poonam K

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Jun 28, 2019

great course

By Bernabé V

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Jun 7, 2021

Buen curso!

By Sandun R

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Mar 1, 2021

Cool course

By Nitin R

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Oct 26, 2019

amazinggggg

By Saurav D

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May 4, 2020

Excellent!

By Elishai E T

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Oct 17, 2019

Wonderful!