Robotics and Sensors
Robotics and Sensors
Acad Unit:
Prerequisite:
Effective:
Last update:
3.0
Nil
Acad Year 2000-2001
20 March 2000
OBJECTIVE
This course introduces fundamental concepts in robotics and intelligent sensing techniques. The
objectives of the course are to provide an introductory understanding of robotics and intelligent
sensors. Students will be exposed to a broad range of topics in robotics and intelligent sensors, with
emphasis on basic of manipulators, coordinate transformation and kinematics, trajectory planning,
control techniques, mobile robot kinematics, intelligent sensors, especially on the machine learning
capability of robot kinematics and dynamics in a closed loop system.
DESIRED OUTCOME
On completion of this course, the student will be able to model robot manipulators and mobile robots;
solve an inverse kinematics problem and plan a robot trajectory; design and analyze robot controllers
by using appropriate methods; design basic robot intelligent sensor systems including static system
learning (kinematics) and dynamic learning; and intelligent course recognition.
CONTENT
Overview of robotics. Motion planning and control. Mobile robots . Controller hardware/software
systems. Sensor systems and integration.
ASSESSMENT SCHEME
Continuous Assessment
Final Examination
20%
80%
TEXTBOOKS
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2.
Schilling R. J., Fundamentals of Robotics: Analysis and Control, Prentice Hall, 1990.
McKerrow P. J., Introduction to Robotics, Addison-Wesley, 1991.
REFERENCES
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Siegwart R. and Nourbakhsh I. R., Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, The MIT Press,
2004.
Stadler W., Analytical Robotics and Mechatronics, McGraw-Hill, 1995.