Schedule – Spring 2025

DateTopicAssigned ReadingLecture NotesExtra Material
Tuesday 1/21intro + review
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Meeting ID: 892 4161 3037
Password: 196076
slidesSuggested Material:
Matrix Cookbook
Linear Algebra Done Right
Gilbert Strang Lectures
Spring 2023 Lectures:
Linear Algebra
Diff Eq
Thursday
1/23
Mechanisms, joints and DOFs
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Meeting ID: 857 0193 7960
Password: 601098
Mod. Rob. Ch 2slides
Tuesday
1/28
Holonomic/Non-holonomic constraints
Frame and rigid body motions
Mod Rob Ch 3slides
Thursday
1/30
Frames and rigid body motionsMod Rob Ch 3slides
Tuesday
2/4
Exponential coordinatesslides
Thursday
2/6
TwistsMod Rob Sec 3.3slides
Tuesday
2/11
Twists and ScrewsslidesVideo by Ben Walt:
Spatial Screws for Mechanisms
Thursday
2/13
Forward Kinematics MapMod Rob Ch 4slidesVideo by former TA Ben Walt:
Spatial Forward Kinematics
Tuesday 2/18Forward Kinematics Map and JacobiansMod Rob Ch 5slides
Thursday 2/20JacobiansMod Rob Ch 5slidesNote of Jacobian
Tuesday 2/25Inverse Kinematics IMod Rob Ch 6.1slides
Thursday 2/27Exam IMake reservations in CBFT
Tuesday 3/4Inverse Kinematics IIMod Rob Ch 6.2slides
Thursday 3/6Trajectory generationMod Rob Ch 9slides
Tuesday 3/11Motion planning IMod Rob Ch 10slides
Thursday 3/13Motion planning IIslides
Tue 3/24Kinematics of Closed chainsMod Rob Ch 7slides
Thu 3/26 Exam IIannotated slides
Tue 4/1Intro to Robot DynamicsMod Rob Ch 8slides
Thu 4/3Intro to Robot Controlslides
Tue 4/8Intro to Robot Control
Thu 4/10No lecture
Tue 4/15Intro to Robot Controlslides
Thu 4/17Bayesian filteringslides
annotatedslides