Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 2.12 (Fall 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Introduction to Robotics 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Mechanical Engineering 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Harry Asada
  Prof. John Leonard 
• Course Introduction:
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  2.12 Introduction to Robotics
  
  
  
  

  Fall 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features a full set of lecture notes and assignments, plus video clips of project demonstrations.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning; mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots, multi-rigid-body dynamics, 3D graphic simulation; control design, actuators, and sensors; wireless networking, task modeling, human-machine interface, and embedded software. Weekly laboratories provide experience with servo drives, real-time control, and embedded software. Students will design and fabricate working robotic systems in a group-based term project.

  
  
  

  Special Features

  
  
  

  • Student projects

  
  
  

  Technical Requirements

  
  
  

  Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm, .mov, .zip.