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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 29, 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...

AC

Jan 2, 2019

This is the place to start your journey into robotics. But stick to the entire 6 courses. This course is about laying out the basics so don't expect making robots straightaway. All the best!

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By Alvaro C

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May 14, 2021

Muy bueno

By Munnangi A R

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Mar 2, 2020

Excellent

By 隋东霖

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Jan 27, 2020

Splendid!

By Mateus M

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Sep 14, 2020

Amazing!

By Pierre K

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Aug 23, 2021

perfect

By Collins M

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Jan 30, 2024

Great

By DHANASU S

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Mar 18, 2023

GOOD

By P.Ganesh

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Apr 14, 2020

Good

By Bhushan A R

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Aug 16, 2021

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By Zejd I

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Apr 7, 2022

This course is intermediate at first glance, you need to now things just they listed at the requirments list. This first course is not so good because a lots of theory that are taken from one book. Videos are short and not so descriptive. Examples in the course is almost zero, please add some reasonable examples just to get in touch with calculations.

The only reason why I gave 4 stars is because of that book which is great and because of the second course in this specialization which tackle right into examples with this theory from this first course, so I hope it will be all good after all.

By Mohammad Z K

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Sep 23, 2021

It is a pretty good starting course into the world of robotics. It is not easy and dives straight into the hard concepts. The presenter is well versed in this topic and is also the author of the book being used for this course. The reason for giving this four star and not five is because most of the course has to be done be self study and the video lectures are short and just barely scrape the surface of the contents.

Amazing course and definitely worth the time investment!

By Michal S

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Mar 2, 2023

The course is base on book Modern Robotics. Most of the information I've learned was from the book. Therefore I would expect that on Coursera I will get some additional/on top information, e.g. prepared examples with solutions and explanations.

This way, the biggest benefit of this course is the quiz which verifies my understanding. Unfortunately the quiz questions are more or less same as in the book (I would expect different exercises at least, changed numbers)

By Steven M B

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Feb 8, 2021

It may be, that what I've perceived to be a slight lack of detail in the explanatory videos, is a deliberate attempt at prompting the student to dig in to the text for more answers. Yet, there were some rare occasions where I found myself wishing for more emphasis on certain critical points. Overall, the course is a great introduction to the fundamentals of representing robotic configurations and the mathematics required to manipulate these configurations.

By Junning H

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Jan 27, 2021

Great lectures! It's a good start to learn robotics with the representations.

Just one simple suggestion: the part of the homogeneous representation, especially the screw representation section, is quite hard to follow. The reason might come from the lack of demonstrations or pictures to show it just a decomposition of the speed on the rotation axis and the orthogonal axis.

By Pramath P N

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Apr 13, 2020

i thought this course would be like a beginner course but i was rather a difficult one. If anyone is looking for a career in this field then please take this course. If anyone is just interested in robotics(like me), then do not take this course as it is a specialisation course and not for beginners

By Aditya C

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Jun 2, 2020

It was a great course and I got to learn a lot. The tests were not easy to solve which ensured complete understanding of the concepts. However, would have been the best if the concepts were explained more clearly in the video in simple language.

By shashwat j

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Oct 13, 2019

The course could have been better by giving more challenging project so that students can understand how much important are the fundamentals and a solid base is always beneficial before learning anything new.

By Jishnu S

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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.

By Karim S

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Mar 5, 2023

THe course could use more problem solving exemples and there is some information you have to figure out on your own. But overall very interesting.

By Himanshu V

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Jul 5, 2020

It's a great course to learn basic mathematics in Robotics. I would recommend this to anyone who wishes to understand Robotics profoundly.

By Eza S

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Mar 14, 2022

Well structured and reasonably challenging. I would highly recommend it to anyone planning to pursue graduate studies in robotics!

By Abizer P

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Feb 11, 2021

It was a pretty informative Course. It did great job in introducing essentials. Just hope that the videos were more insightful

By Aditya H

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Apr 20, 2020

Some tutorials provided for instructing about how to use Matlab would have been great.Otherwise everything else was great.

By Md S S

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Nov 28, 2021

The Course is good. Delivered basic knowledge of robotics clearly. But there are still some scopes need to be improved.

By Mayur

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Jan 23, 2021

This Course was not fully explained in the videos, one has to refer a book while following the course material