Robotics: Mobility

Robotics: Mobility

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8 h
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  • 4 Sequences
  • Introductive Level

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Introduction: Motivation and Background
    We start with a general consideration of animals, the exemplar of mobility in nature. This leads us to adopt the stance of bioinspiration rather than biomimicry, i.e., extracting principles rather than appearances and applying them systematically to our machi...
  • Week 2 - Behavioral (Templates) & Physical (Bodies)
    We’ll start with behavioral components that take the form of what we call “templates:” very simple mechanisms whose motions are fundamental to the more complex limbed strategies employed by animal and robot locomotors. We’ll focus on the “compass gait” (the mo...
  • Week 3 - Anchors: Embodied Behaviors
    Now we’ll put physical links and joints together and consider the geometry and the physics required to understand their coordinated motion. We’ll learn about the geometry of degrees of freedom. We’ll then go back to Newton and learn a compact way to write down...
  • Week 4 - Composition (Programming Work)
    We now introduce the concept of dynamical composition, reviewing two types: a composition in time that we term “sequential”; and composition in space that we call “parallel.” We’ll put a bit more focus into that last concept, parallel composition and review w...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Daniel E. Koditschek
Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science

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