Topics

• Topics will include most of the following:
• Introduction to and history of Robotics, Mobile Rovers and Robotic Manipulators
• Robotics toolbox
• Introduction to Intelligent Control Handouts
• Position and orientation in 2D and 3D environment
• Time and motion
• Definitions of Manipulators and Mobile Robots, Autonomy, Behavior and structural elements of mobile robots
• Using Linux and ROS for robotic applications
• Using MATLAB Fuzzy logic toolbox for robotic applications
• Using Cloud infrastructure, Python, Hadoop for robotic applications
• Mobile robotics kinematics and dynamics
• Navigation
• Localization
• Vison-based techniques for robotics
• Robot manipulators kinematics
• Velocity relationships in Manipulator robots Navigation
• Dynamics and Control of Manipulators

Textbooks

• Corke, Robotic Vision and Control, Springer-Verlag, 2011 (C).
• Zilouchian and Jamshidi, Intelligent Control Systems with Soft Computing Methodologies, CRC, Boca Raton, 2004.
• L Behera and I. Kar, Intelligent Systems and Control, Oxford Press, UK, 2009.
• T. Nanayakkara, F. Sahin and M. Jamshidi, Intelligent Control Systems with an Introduction to System of Systems Engineering, Boca Raton, FL, CRC Publishers, 2010.
• Fu, Gonzales and Lee, Robotics, McGraw Hill, 1997.

Toolboxes

• MATLAB robotics toolbox exercises for robotic manipulation

Robotics Experiments

The students will be expected to apply the course materials to different robotic platforms including aerial and ground robots.