Schedule – Fall 2025

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DateTopicAssigned ReadingLecture NotesExtra Material
Tuesday 8/26intro + review

slidesSuggested Material:
Matrix Cookbook
Linear Algebra Done Right
Gilbert Strang Lectures
Spring 2023 Lectures:
Linear Algebra
Diff Eq
Thursday
8/28
Mechanisms, joints and DOFs
ONLINE
Mod. Rob. Ch 2slides
Tuesday 9/2No Lecture
Thursday 9/4
Holonomic/Non-holonomic constrains
Rigid Body Motions
Mod. Rob. Ch 3slides
Tue 9/9Rigid Body Motions and exponential coordinatesMod Rob Ch 3.1-3.3slides(Ann)
Thu 9/11Exponential coordinatesslides
Tue 9/16Twists, Screws and Homogeneous transformationsMod Rob Ch 3.3slides
Thu 9/18Twists, Screws and Homogeneous transformationsslides (Ann)
Tue 9/23Screws and Forward Kinematicsslides
Thu 9/25Screws and Forward Kinematicsslides
slides
slides(ann)
Tue 9/30Forward Kinematicsslides(ann)
Tue 10/7Forward Kinematics, DH formalismslides (annotated)
Thu 10/9Velocity kinematics. Jacobian. slides (annotated)
Tue 10/14Velocity Kinematics. Space and Body Jacobians. slides (annotated)
python code to compute space Jacobians
Thu 10/16Singularity and Manipulability.
Inverse Kinematics
slides (annotated)
Tue 10/21 Inverse Kinematicsslides (annotated)
Thu 10/23Kinematics of Closed Chainsslides (annotated)
Tue 10/28Statics and Kinematics of Closed Chainsslides (annotated)
Thu 10/30Statics and Kinematics of Closed Chains. Dynamicsslides (annotated)
Tue 11/4Dynamicsslides (annotated)
Thu 11/6Trajectory Generationslides (annotated)
Tue 11/11Motion Planning
Thu 11/13Project Dayproject outline
Tue 11/18Motion planning Islides
Motion planning IIslides(annotated)