Robotics basics
A robot senses, decides and moves. The deciding gets the attention and the moving is where the difficulty lives, because the physical world refuses to match the model.
What you'll learn
10 chapters, then the quiz
- 01What counts as a robotSense, think, act.
- 02SensorsGetting the world into numbers.
- 03Actuators and motionMaking something move.
- 04ControlClosing the loop.
- 05KinematicsGeometry of a mechanism.
- 06NavigationKnowing where you are.
- 07ManipulationWhy picking things up is hard.
- 08Robots and machine learningWhat it changed, and did not.
- 09SafetyMachines that can hurt people.
- 10Getting startedLearning by building.
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