Syllabus
Unit 1
Representing Position and Orientation-Orientation and pose in 2D and3D – Normalization-exponential mapping –twists -Dual Quaternions-Configuration Space – Time and Motion -Time-Varying Pose -Accelerating Bodies and Reference Frames -Creating Time-Varying Pose –Applications.
Unit 2
Mobile Robot Vehicles -Wheeled Mobile Robots -Flying Robots -Navigation-Reactive Navigation -Map-Based Planning – Localization -Dead Reckoning -Localizing with a Map – Creating a Map – Localization and Mapping – Rao-Blackwellized SLAM – Pose Graph SLAM – Sequential Monte-Carlo Localization – Applications.
Unit 3
Arm -Type Robots-Forward Kinematics -Inverse Kinematics –Trajectories – Manipulator Velocity -Manipulator Jacobian -Jacobian Condition and Manipulability -Resolved-Rate Motion Control -Under and Over-Actuated Manipulators -Force Relationships -Inverse Kinematics -Computing the Manipulator Jacobian Using Twists – Dynamics and Control -Independent Joint Control -Rigid-Body Equations of Motion -Forward Dynamics –RigidBody Dynamics Compensation.