Monday, August 17, 2015

MOOC Courses about Robotics

Introduction to Robotics from QUT
A college-level introductory course to Robotics. It's a seven-week course, and just started last week. The pace is medium. The course covers the basic theoretical foundation of robotics such that it will be easier for you to learn advanced topics. The course uses MATLAB as a major tool, and you can download it for free.


Course topics:
  • Introduction to robotics
  • Where things are in 2D
  • Where things are in 3D
  • Time varying coordinate frames
  • Measuring the motion of things
  • Robot arms and forward kinematics
  • Inverse kinematics and robot motion
  • Robot velocity in 2D
  • Robot velocity in 3D
  • Robot joint control
  • Rigid body dynamics
  • Robotics and the future

Autonomous Navigationfor Flying Robots from edX
An advanced Robotics course introducing the theoretical background of how drone is working and how autonomous navigation is possible. It's an eight-week course loaded with heavy-duty contents.  However, since it's an archived course, you can learn it at your own pace. The course will require some math background in calculus and linear algebra.


Course topics:
  • Introduction
  • Linear Algebra and 2D Geometry
  • 3D Geometry and Sensors
  • Actuators and Control
  • Probabilistic State Estimation
  • Kalman Filter
  • Visual Odometry
  • Visual SLAM and 3D Reconstruction

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