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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 Alexandr Z

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Feb 2, 2021

A good course , but i would like more examples of every task with specific parameters not variables

By Rakesh S

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Jul 4, 2020

It was an amazing experience to learn robotics this course teaches lots of new things.

By Prakriti K

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Feb 1, 2022

Exceptionally good course.Video content can be increased instead of reading the book.

By Jorge I P B

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May 29, 2021

It was good, The last part was not very clear. There were some missing concepts

By Sandhya V

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Aug 31, 2020

The videos really need to be more detailed, especially from Week 3 onwards.

By Clayder A G C

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Mar 13, 2022

Very useful. I liked the practical use of maths oriented to robotics.

By KATKAR K

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Feb 20, 2022

Great course ! Everything explained in detail

By KwangHoe K

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Jul 13, 2020

Good for a Robotics Software Engineer

By Luming

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Nov 30, 2020

good!hope more example

By Ayush K P

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Oct 28, 2019

It is the best course to start the career in the field of robotics.All the explanation related to the terms and topics in the video is very short.It gives the theory part in a good way. But there is no numerical problem, which is tough to understand it and how to implement it.If this platform will provide the answer key of book ,it will be very helpful for all the user to match their answer(Only answer Key of the all chapters).

By Nikhil B

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Nov 8, 2021

This course is great for building the foundations of robot motion. The assignments are good and the flow of the course is nice too. However, course and the book lacks the practice problems. Sure there are exercises at the end of each chapter in the book but it would have been nice to see some solved problems which would help clear the concepts further.

By sarthak v

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Aug 8, 2020

Clear description and detailed analysis not available in the 4th week. Making it quite cumbersome process to realize the mistakes done in answering the questions (especially last quiz of 4th week)

By Sahil G

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Aug 2, 2020

this course is good for new learners but the programming part is not detailed explained in video lectures and the questions are too tough to be solved. other then , interesting course .

By KARAN R V

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Mar 30, 2020

certain things were hard to grasp expecting more detailed explanations in an easier language

By Naomi R

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Jul 16, 2023

All the material for this course is available online for free: videos, textbook, etc. This course can offer potential engagement with the lecturer, but with hundreds of unanswered posts on the forums, it's unlikely that the cost of this course will be worth the value.

Having completed other coursera courses years ago, I know that some course owners respond within a day or two, so it's not impossible to get this kind of engagement. It's just not available on this specific course.

Rated 2 stars as the quality of the course is high, but the lack of engagement pulls it down quite significantly. It doesn't offer much more benefit than reading the textbook and watching the videos by yourself.

By Viktor B

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Aug 26, 2022

Dry math with very little practical examples. The videos add almost nothing to the content of the (free) textbook. Tests only verify the understanding of the math and the programming functions. I really hope that the next course will be more fun.