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.,

• Introduction to robotics- History, growth; Robot applications- Manufacturing industry, defense, rehabilitation, medical, etc., Laws of Robotics

• Robot mechanisms; Kinematics- coordinate transformations, DH parameters

• Forward kinematics, Inverse Kinematics

• Jacobians, Statics, Trajectory Planning

•  Actuators (electrical)- DC motors, BLDC servo motors

• Sensors, sensor integration

• Control – PWM, joint motion control, feedback control

• Computed torque control

• Perception, Localisation and mapping

• Probabilistic robotics, Path planning, BFS; DFS; Dijkstra; A-star; D-star; Voronoi; Potential Field; Hybrid approaches

• Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

• 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