
Watch the introductory video to begin exploring robotics and mechatronics through a basic guide for newcomers.
Explore robotics and mechatronics from basics to practical applications, bridging academics and citizens, covering mechanical, electrical, and electronic systems, sensing, locomotion, and robot control.
Discover the history of robotics, from early concepts to autonomous vehicles, and grasp essential terms such as degrees of freedom, workspace, spatial resolution, and encoder.
Explore industrial robot types and their structures, including prismatic joint, rotation joint, and revolving joint, and Cartesian, cylindrical, and articulated configurations, with insights into basic programming methods.
Explore homogeneous transformations to view targets from a robot’s perspective in 3d space, merging rotation and translation matrices into a single homogeneous transformation matrix, and study the composition of rotations.
Explore forward kinematics using Denavit-Hartenberg parameters and homogeneous transformation matrices to compute end-effector position and orientation from joint variables, with coordinate frames, rotation, and translation examples.
Apply inverse kinematics to determine joint angles Q1 and Q2 from end-effector position, using analytical and geometric approaches and the decoupling method to separate positioning and orientation tasks.
Explore how to define and model control systems, bridging mechanical and electronic components, using open and closed loop designs, transfer functions, and first and second order models.
Explore automatic control signals that unite mechanical and electrical systems using block diagrams and transfer functions, and design closed-loop controllers such as proportional, integral, differential, and two-position types.
Learn to express systems in state-space form and use integrators to build state vectors; analyze controllability and observability via matrix ranks to determine control and observation capability.
Explore the fundamentals of sensors and transducers in robotics, covering sensor concepts, specifications like range, accuracy, sensitivity, and common devices such as potentiometers, strain gauges, piezoelectric sensors, and optical encoders.
Explore practical sensor specifications, including pressure and thermocouple non-linearity, full range errors, and calibration, and examine how strain gauges, Wheatstone bridges, optical encoders, and digital sensors convert signals.
This course is a walkthrough in the world of Robotics and extends from beginner to advance levels. Core concepts of Robotics explained in a crisp and lucid manner. By the end of this entire module, you will be aware of different kinds of industrial robots, various sensing, and locomotion mechanisms and finally, learn to develop mathematical models for positioning and controlling these robots