Fall 2023 at The University of Minnesota
This website describes a course still in development to be offered in the Fall 2023 semester.
The goal of this course is to introduce students to robotics principles, covering key topics such as 3D transformations, robot kinematics, forward and inverse kinematics, path planning, configuration spaces, sampling-based planning, basic motion control algorithms, and state estimation for mobile robots, which includes mapping, localization, and SLAM. Students will gain hands-on experience in programming robots in the Java threejs environment. In later projects, they will have the opportunity to control real-world robots using their virtual counterparts using ROS. There will be a open-ended final project where students can apply their skills acquired throughout the semester to explore new ideas. They will present their projects to a wider audience through poster presentations and demos.
This course builds on and is indebted to materials from -
- Prof. Chad Jenkins (Univ of Michigan) and the staff of autorob.org
- Prof. Dieter Fox (Univ of Washington),
- Prof. Cyrill Stachniss (Univ of Bonn),
- Prof. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (Univ of Minnesota),
- Prof. Junaed Sattar (Univ of Minnesota)