IIT Madras Online FREE course on "Introduction of Robotics"
Overview
IIT Madras has announced the online course on Introduction to Robotics on the SWAYAM Portal. This is a 12 week-long course and will start on 26 July 2021. This is a completely free course but for the certificate, you need to pay the desire fee (1000apx).
Eligibility
The following candidates can apply for this online course by the IIT Madras.
- First and second-year students in degree programs including Engineering and Science degree programs.
- Any engineering discipline and mathematics, Physics.
- Undergraduate/graduate students interested in robotics
Prerequisites
Standard XII in the Science stream
Topics
The following topic will be covered in this free course on introduction to Robotics.,
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Introduction to robotics- History, growth; Robot applications- Manufacturing industry, defense, rehabilitation, medical, etc., Laws of Robotics
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Robot mechanisms; Kinematics- coordinate transformations, DH parameters
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Forward kinematics, Inverse Kinematics
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Jacobians, Statics, Trajectory Planning
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Actuators (electrical)- DC motors, BLDC servo motors
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Sensors, sensor integration
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Control – PWM, joint motion control, feedback control
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Computed torque control
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Perception, Localisation and mapping
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Probabilistic robotics, Path planning, BFS; DFS; Dijkstra; A-star; D-star; Voronoi; Potential Field; Hybrid approaches
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Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
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Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Last date
The last date to apply for this course is 15 Oct 2021
This is an AICTE approved FDP course