Lectures:

1. 26-Jul:  Introduction
2. 2-Aug:   Representing Position & Orientation & State
   (Frames, Transformation Matrices & Affine Transformations)
3. 9-Aug:   Robot Kinematics
4. 16-Aug:   Robot Dynamics
5. 23-Aug:  Robot Dynamics II: Trajectories & Motion
   • Solution to the 2R Robot Arm Dynamics Example Problem
6. 30-Aug:   Sensors & Measurement
7. 6-Sep:   Computer Vision & Perception
8. 13-Sep:   Localization & Navigation (SLAM)
9. 20-Sep:  State-Space Modelling
10. 27-Sep:   State-Space Control 
    • Additional Notes on Lagrange's Formulation of the Cart-Pole Problem (from B. Friedland, Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods, Sections 2.4-2.6)
11. 
    4-Oct:   Study break
    
    

11. 11-Oct:   Estimation & Motion Planning
    • Additional Notes on Kalman Filters
    • Sample Kinematic Kalman Filter Code
    • Motion Planning Terminology/Definition List
12. 18-Oct:   Motion Planning & Control
    • Additional Notes/Reading from B. Friedland, Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods: Sections 6.1-6.2 and Sections 9.1-9.7
13. 25-Oct:   Course Summary & Applications of Robotics
    Featuring:
• Prof. P. Corke : Vision-based control and Visual Servoing
• Latzi Marian: Applications of METR4202 to the Baking and Aluminium processing industry
• Stefan Williams:  Robotics and Oceanic Environmental Monitoring

Please refer comments & questions to: metr4202@itee.uq.edu.au

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