Course Overview
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.