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About the Course

Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 1 of the specialization, Foundations of Robot Motion, you will learn fundamental material regarding robot configurations, for both serial robot mechanisms and robots with closed chains. You will learn about configuration space (C-space), degrees of freedom, C-space topology, implicit and explicit representations of configurations, and holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches. This material is at the core of the study of anything that moves (e.g., robots). This course follows the textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017). You can purchase the book or use the free preprint pdf. You will build on a library of robotics software in the language of your choice (among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP, which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment....

Top reviews

WO

Dec 29, 2021

Very Engineering driven course and you better be ready for the calculations... Made for Engineers.

Coming from an Electrical/Electronic background it was really intuitive. I plan on continuing...

EH

Oct 12, 2022

Great Course. But you need to read the book very carefully and with great focus to understand all the concepts and you should be familiar with Linear Algebra especially vectors and matrices.

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By RAMAN S

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Aug 9, 2020

this course is very systematic and easily understandable

By Amirhossein A

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Jun 1, 2020

Good course to understand how a robot moves in 3D space.

By Rythm S

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Nov 26, 2021

Excellent teaching with good visuals and presentations

By ayesha h

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Sep 29, 2021

A very helpful video series for beginners in robotics

By KUMAR G

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May 20, 2020

Learned a lot in this course. It is very interesting

By Jahangir A

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Mar 25, 2019

Excellent course, every one should take this course.

By Sami J

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Jul 11, 2019

It was a little bit too difficault in math for me.

By Arshad

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Jan 15, 2021

Great course to fundamental studies of robotics.

By James G

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May 12, 2019

I love the use use of Lie groups in this course.

By Kulman Y E

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Oct 14, 2021

Inquisitive and interesting, informative course

By Kiran K

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Dec 27, 2020

Excellent course material to start from basics.

By Isaac J

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Jul 29, 2023

Challenging, but great learning opportunity!

By Lateef A

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May 10, 2022

Absolutely amazing. It's beginner friendly!

By Syed H S

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Nov 26, 2023

Indeed, this is a very informative course.

By P S

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Nov 8, 2020

Quizzes ought to be a bit more challenging

By Guduru D

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Feb 9, 2020

useful information of rudimentary robotics

By Majid A

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May 25, 2019

That's a great course. Thank you coursera.

By Gunasekaran S

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Aug 6, 2019

Assignment can be little more difficult.

By Jorge R H P

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Dec 15, 2023

Excellent course, It is easy to follow.

By Carlos S V A

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Oct 10, 2023

Excelent course with clear explanations

By Bijan s

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Oct 3, 2021

it is verry usefull course for fresheer

By Aditya V

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Apr 27, 2020

All concepts are very well explained

By Aki N

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Dec 16, 2019

Great material and clear lectures

By Sanshodhan

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Apr 15, 2020

Very Good and a bit tough course

By Leandro M

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Aug 28, 2018

Exciting and very useful course.