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About the Course

Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 1 of the specialization, Foundations of Robot Motion, you will learn fundamental material regarding robot configurations, for both serial robot mechanisms and robots with closed chains. You will learn about configuration space (C-space), degrees of freedom, C-space topology, implicit and explicit representations of configurations, and holonomic and nonholonomic constraints. You will also learn how to represent spatial velocities and forces as twists and wrenches. This material is at the core of the study of anything that moves (e.g., robots). This course follows the textbook "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control" (Lynch and Park, Cambridge University Press 2017). You can purchase the book or use the free preprint pdf. You will build on a library of robotics software in the language of your choice (among Python, Mathematica, and MATLAB) and use the free cross-platform robot simulator V-REP, which allows you to work with state-of-the-art robots in the comfort of your own home and with zero financial investment....

Top reviews

WO

Dec 30, 2021

Very Engineering driven course and you better be ready for the calculations... Made for Engineers.Coming from an Electrical/Electronic background it was really intuitive. I plan on continuing...

JS

Apr 26, 2020

Great course and very good exercises. But it is completely self study, no use or very little use of video lectures. Not sure how its going to be in later courses of this specialization.

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May 23, 2025

a good course

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Jan 7, 2020

Great Course!

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Sep 27, 2023

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Sep 8, 2021

Nice course!

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Aug 12, 2020

It was great

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Jun 29, 2019

great course

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Jun 8, 2021

Buen curso!

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Mar 2, 2021

Cool course

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Oct 26, 2019

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May 5, 2020

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Oct 17, 2019

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Sep 23, 2025

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May 15, 2021

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Mar 2, 2020

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Jan 27, 2020

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Aug 24, 2021

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