Robotics Mobility

How can robots use their motors and sensors to move around in an unstructured environment? You will understand how to design robot bodies and behaviors that recruit limbs and more general appendages to apply physical forces that confer reliable mobility in a complex and dynamic world. We develop an approach to composing simple dynamical abstractions that partially automate the generation of complicated sensorimotor programs. Specific topics that will be covered include: mobility in animals and robots, kinematics and dynamics of legged machines, and design of dynamical behavior via energy landscapes.

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Syllabus

Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Introduction: Motivation and Background
Week 2
Behavioral (Templates) & Physical (Bodies)
Week 3
Anchors: Embodied Behaviors
Week 4
Composition (Programming Work)

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Reviews

The material itself is worth a few stars. Clearly lots of work has gone into making some interesting interactive matlab demos. some of the quizzes are unnecessarily confusing.

The course was challenging. I hope there would be more examples deepen my learning

Es un gran curso en el que se introducen conceptos fundamentales acerca de la robotica. Genera entusiasmo para seguir aprendiendo. Thanks.

thanks for the course. I liked how you mentioned what is active area of research.