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| Week | Tues | Topic 1 | Thurs | Topic 2 | Side Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01.20 | Intro + Review slides-empty slides-annotated | 01.22 | Mechanism Design Mod. Rob. Ch 2 slides-empty slides-annotated | Suggested Review Material: Matrix Cookbook Linear Algebra Done Right Gilbert Strang Lectures Spring 2023 Review Lectures: Linear Algebra Diff Eq Extra material: robot design lecture by Prof. Yuan |
| 2 | 01.27 | Rigid body motion Mod. Rob. Ch 3.1-3.2 link to lecture recording slides-empty slides-annotated | 01.29 | Transformations Mod. Rob. Ch 3.3-3.4 link to lecture recording slides-empty slides-annotated | Extra material: Visualizing Quaternions |
| 3 | 02.03 | Motions and Transformations Recap / Screw Motions Mod. Rob. Ch 3.3-3.4 slides-empty slides-annotated | 02.05 | Screw Motions Mod. Rob. Ch 3.3-3.4 slides-empty slides-annotated | |
| 4 | 02.10 | Review I Review Slides Jupyter Notebook | 02.12 | Exam I in CBTF | No HW party! |
| 5 | 02.17 | Forward Kinematics I Mod. Rob. Ch 4 slides-empty slides-annotated | 02.19 | Forward Kinematics II Mod. Rob. Ch 4 slides-empty slides-annotated | |
| 6 | 02.24 | Velocity Kinematics I Mod. Rob. Ch 5.1 slides-empty slides-annotated | 02.26 | Velocity Kinematics II & Manipulability Mod. Rob. Ch 5.4 slides-empty slides-annotated | |
| 7 | 03.03 | Review Lecture Mod. Rob. Ch 4 & 5 Review Slides Jupyter Notebook | 03.05 | URDF and Simulation Mod. Rob. Ch 4.2 Tutorial Readme | |
| 8 | 03.10 | Calibration slides-empty slides-annotated ref | 03.12 | Inverse Kinematics I slides-empty slides-annotated | |
| 9 | 03.17 | SPRING BREAK | 03.19 | SPRING BREAK | No HW party! |
| 10 | 03.24 | Inverse Kinematics II slides-empty slides-annotated | 03.26 | Industrial Robot Safety slides | |
| 11 | 03.31 | Review II Review Slides Jupyter Notebook | 04.02 | Exam 2 in CBTF | No HW party! |
| 12 | 04.07 | Trajectory Generation slides-empty slides-annotated | 04.09 | Motion Planning I slides-empty slides-annotated | |
| 13 | 04.14 | Motion Planning II slides-empty slides-annotated | 04.16 | NO CLASS | |
| 14 | 04.21 | Manipulation I slides-empty slides-annotated | 04.23 | Manipulation II slides | |
| 15 | 04.28 | Comprehensive Review Review Slides Jupyter Notebook | 04.30 | Exam 3 in CBTF | No HW party! |
| 16 | 05.05 | In Class Activity | 05.07 | NO FINAL | |
| 17 | 05.12 | NO FINAL | 05.14 | NO FINAL |