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Analysis of Integrated Robotic Systems: control architectures, task modeling and planning, robot programming and supervision, robot sensing. Dexterous Robot Manipulation: redundant robot manipulators, cooperating robots, dexterous robot hands, kinematic/static analysis and control, manipulability, force/impedance control. Intelligent Mobile Robotics: elements of mechatronic design (locomotion, sensors), kinematic modeling, control architectures, environment representation, perception and localization, sensor fusion, path planning, robot learning. Telerobotics and Applications.

Introduction to the theory of fundamental problems in computer vision, synopsis of evidences from biological vision, mathematical models and computational algorithms for their solution, and description of selected applications. Visual sensors and image formation. Spatio-temporal processing of visual signals: Multidimensional linear filters and Fourier/Gabor analysis. Morphological operators and nonlinear filters. Multiscale image analysis with linear (Gaussian scale-space) and nonlinear methods (geometric diffusion). Detection of edges and other geometric features. Analysis of shape and texture. Motion estimation. Stereopsis and multiview geometry. Curve/surface evolution, active contours, and levelsets. Graph-theoretic methods. Image segmentation. 3D reconstruction. Object recognition. Applications in artificial intelligence, biomedicine, robotics, digital arts, and internet.

Introduction to Robotics: Technological aspects, types of robots, application areas. Kinematic, static and dynamic analysis of robotic manipulators. Trajectory planning and control of robots. Linear local joint PID control, nonlinear computed-torque control, force/impedance control and hybrid control of robots. Introduction to adaptive and robust control of robots. Robot programming. Laboratory training: continuous and discrete control of a robot joint, linear and nonlinear control of an articulated inverted pendulum, programming of a robotic cell, programming and control of robotic manipulators (a serial linkage 6 dof manipulator and a SCARA-type robot).

Electric circuits, models and circuit elements. Generalized formulation of Kirchhoff's laws, graph theory, node analysis, loop analysis, tableau analysis, modified node analysis, state equations. Network functions, poles and zeros, equivalent representations, controllability, observability, passivity, stability, sensitivity. Time-domain and frequency domain response, sinusoidal steady-state analysis, Bode diagrams, Nyquist diagrams. Multiports and multiport networks. Two-ports: representations, conversions, terminated two-ports, interconnected two-ports, reciprocal and symmetric two-ports, two-port stability and passivity analysis. Switched capacitor circuits.