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Modern Robotics Course 1 Foundations of Robot Motion

• Modern Robotics Course, Learn new concepts from industry experts
• Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
• Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
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Modern Robotics Course

• Introduction to the specialization, the Modern Robotics code library, the Coppelia Sim robot simulator, and the lightboard video-generation tool.
• 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 also.
• 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 also.
• You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches also.
• This material is at the core of the study of anything that moves (e.g., robots) also.
• This course follows the textbook “Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control” (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017) also.

Modules

• 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 also.
• (Among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP also.
• Which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment.
• 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.