The course is very good.\n\nThe classes are well taught and show general concepts. It is necessary to do research on the internet, to solve the assignments. This is not a bad thing in my point of view
I think this is very good course of aerial robotics research. Being a student of robotics, I feel that some of stuffs in this course needs a good background in control and mechanical engineering.
von Deleted A
•Very nice introductory course on aerial robotics.
von Abd-El-Rahman M F
•it's need more explanation and specific resources
von Muhammad A
•More linear Algebra and Matlab tutorials needed
von Ankit S
•It was awesome. But somewhere it was confusing.
von Amrtanshu R
•Assigments to be a bit more clear explained
von Barak R
•second assignment is not well explained.
von Anushka A
•Very thorough, neat and well explained.
von Vishnu T
•Very Challenging but taught me a lot
von Vishal G
•This Is the best course on coursera.
von Eric S
•Final Assignment was very unclear
von ATISH K
•VERY INTERESTING...........
von Carlos M
•Recién empecé. Pinta bien!
von balagopal p k
•Mind Blowing course...!!!
von primejack
•A bit hard for beginners
von Rajat S
•it was really worth it.
von Muhammed A E f a
•it is so awesome course
von Ketha J S
•Excellent Course.
von Fabio B
•Very good course!
von Yug A
•Awesome course !
von Joel N
•Excelente curso
von Ahmed m a a f
•thank you
von Mauro S Q C
•Very good
von Naveen k
•good
von Francesco V
•the course and the lessons are really interesting and the professor is explaining really well. Especially nice are all the videos demonstrating what have been done so far.
Problem are the assignments:
-all the assignments are about controlling a quadrotor, but a matlab code 95% done is already provided and most of the times the only thing requested is to spend days in find (randomly) the correct values for the controller gains;
-the last assignment is again partly about (randomly) looking for gain values and partly about generating a trajectory as a piecewise 7th order polynomial, where the method for creating such thing is only mentioned in the assignment pdf and with wrong conditions. Even with the correct conditions, with a previous knowledge of numerical methods you can go through it, but otherwise it takes quite some time;
-the grade is not set properly.. you either take 0points or the maximum, meaning that for just passing the assignment you have the same difficulty as getting full marks.. if you arrive (after days of trial and error) to the point of passing the assignment, then you can easily get full grade with small changes.. which makes no sense;
-the explanatory pdf for the assignments or the provided codes some times contain errors, and I don't understand why they are not fixed considering that this course is already the second time that was provided;
-the assignments are fully based on matlab and to actually understand something it is required quite a deep knowledge of how to use it.. I work daily with matlab and had some difficulties in following what it is done. If somebody is new to matlab, it will be quite difficult to do even the easier tasks;
-the evaluation function for the last assignment is extremely slow.. it took me 40minutes to evaluate the results.. and considering the many iterations usually required for (randomly) finding the gains this really doesn't help.
Summarising I am quite happy about this course and glad to have done it, but please fix the many problems in the assignments. I have taken many courses online in different platforms and this was so far the most time consuming one..
von Sj
•Overall good course that would definitely make you spend more time reading and learning on the side. Would recommend it those who have good background in college level math like Linear Algebra and a little bit of Robotics Background from a Math perspective - like working with translations, rotations, transformation matrices of that sort to make the transition easier. (There are basic robotic courses online to help with that, like Peter Corke's course). But overall this course requires some significant effort to explore the material from an external perspective.
Some issues however -
1. Lack of added resources like reading material to support the course and help advanced students go beyond the course themselves.
2. Severe lack of activity from TA(s) on the forums. It's good that students get to interact among themselves and learn on their own, but every single post should be either answered by a TA to clarify doubts or they should acknowledge that another student's explanation was good enough to answer a particular question.
3. The in-video quizzes weren't up-to-the-mark as per me. One question asked "why" and the answer was literally "because that's how that algorithm is".
4. This is a trend in MOOCs and I don't think it can be helped, but perhaps more assignments that help understand the concepts better with examples would help students go beyond. If this course had such optional assignments that would be great for understanding the concepts with a more hands-on approach. But this is probably not the best platform to do so.
Overall would recommend future iterations of this course, especially if the first two points above are improved upon.