Battlebots!
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Channel: CMU Robotics Institute · 2012 · Education
Intro to Robotics Class
May 2012
Howie Choset's class isn't all fun and games. Sure, these robots are fighting to push the other one out of the ring and, yes, there is screaming and swearing, but a lot more goes into building a battle bot than meets the eye.
A sample of the topics covered from the class syllabus:
Vision
Projection
Convolution
Edge Detection
Image Interpretation and ENS
Mobility - (mobile robot platforms)
Inertial Navigation Systems
Graph Search
Controls (and encoders)
Motion Planning
Potential Functions
Roadmaps
Cell Decompositions
Sensing and Sensors
Human Robot Interaction
Forward and Inverse Kinematics
Transformation Matrices
Inverse Kinematics
Geometric methods
Algebraic methods
Non-holonomic constraints
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