Introduction to Robotics

General Data
Academic program	ECAM ENGINEERING PROGRAM			:
Type d'EC	Classes
Lectures : 10h00 Tutorials : 12h00 Lab Work : 8h00 Total duration : 52h00	Status :	Period : Semester 6	Education language : English

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1. Define robotics and its various fields 2. Face the difficulty of hardware programming 3. State a problem, read and write technical specifications 4. Compute Forward, Inverse and Differential Kinematics for simple robotic systems 5. Compute motion planning for mobile robots 6. Program mobile robot kinematics and autonomous behavior with sensors interactions 7. Program robot arm kinematics 8. Develop good programming practices (documentation, test, git/gitflow)

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Define robotics and its various fields
2. Face the difficulty of hardware programming
3. State a problem, read and write technical specifications
4. Compute Forward, Inverse and Differential Kinematics for simple robotic systems
5. Compute motion planning for mobile robots
6. Program mobile robot kinematics and autonomous behavior with sensors interactions
7. Program robot arm kinematics
8. Develop good programming practices (documentation, test, git/gitflow)

Content
-Introduction to robotic systems and controllers -Robots in their contexts -Mechanical structures: serial and parallel robots, mobile robots -Forward, Inverse and Differential Kinematics for Robot Arm -Differential Drive robots -Motion planning for mobile robot (Dijkstra, A*) -Practical introduction to robot programming (mBot, poppy)

Pre-requisites / co-requisites
-Mathematics for engineers 1 -Mathematics for engineers 2 -Mathematics for engineers 3 -Mathematics for engineers 4 -Mathematics for engineers 5 -Computer programming -Object-oriented programming -Simulation and numerical calculation 1 -Simulation and numerical calculation 2 -Electronics 1 – Components and technology -Electronics 2 – Functions and applications -Digital design and embedded software 1 -Digital design and embedded software 2

Pre-requisites / co-requisites

-Mathematics for engineers 1
-Mathematics for engineers 2
-Mathematics for engineers 3
-Mathematics for engineers 4
-Mathematics for engineers 5
-Computer programming
-Object-oriented programming
-Simulation and numerical calculation 1
-Simulation and numerical calculation 2
-Electronics 1 – Components and technology
-Electronics 2 – Functions and applications
-Digital design and embedded software 1
-Digital design and embedded software 2

Bibliography
Essential resources: None Recommended resources: Corke P. (2011) Robotics, Vision and Control. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 73. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20144-8_15

Assessment(s)
N°	Nature	Coefficient	Observable objectives
1	Observable objectives: mid-term exam in which students will be evaluated on their ability to analyze the kinematics of a simple robotic system.	0,3	1, 2, 3, 4, 8
2	Observable objectives: labs in which students will be evaluated on their ability to program robot arms and mobile robots using good coding practices.	0,3	6, 7, 8
3	Observable objectives: final exam in which students will be evaluated on their ability to analyze the kinematics of a simple robotic system and on motion planning for simple mobile robots.	0,4	Written exam