BEST Summer course 2007

Robot Design

Readings

In principle, there is no required literature for the course - everything can be found on the net (see the Links page). However, if you ever wish to continue activities of this kind, then I would warmly recommend the following books:

Fred Martin: Robotic Explorations: A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering, from Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN 0-13-089568-7
Jonathan Knudsen: The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, from O'Reilly, 1999, ISBN 1-56592-692-7

There are, of course, lots of other interesting positions. Below you will find copies of some of the slides I have used during my lectures in 2007. They are mostly derivative of Fred Martin's material.

Introduction to the course: Why intelligent robots? (Monday)
Intro to robotics (Monday)
Hardware (Tuesday)
Feedback control (Wednesday)
A Brief History of Feedback Control, from Chapter 1: Introduction to Modern Control Theory, in: F.L. Lewis, Applied Optimal Control and Estimation, Prentice-Hall, 1992. (Wednesday)
Algorithmic Control (Wednesday, Thursday)
NQC overview (Thursday)
Reactive Control (Friday)
The last lecture (Tuesday)

Last update:
Tuesday, 24-Jul-2007 11:06:59 CEST