Learner Reviews & Feedback for Robotics: Aerial Robotics by University of Pennsylvania
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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.
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By Amrith H
•The program swiftly moves into advanced concepts.
By Deleted A
•Very nice introductory course on aerial robotics.
By Abd-El-Rahman M F
•it's need more explanation and specific resources
By Muhammad A
•More linear Algebra and Matlab tutorials needed
By Ankit S
•It was awesome. But somewhere it was confusing.
By Amrtanshu R
•Assigments to be a bit more clear explained
By Barak R
•second assignment is not well explained.
By Anushka A
•Very thorough, neat and well explained.
By Vishnu T
•Very Challenging but taught me a lot
By Vishal G
•This Is the best course on coursera.
By Eric S
•Final Assignment was very unclear
By ATISH K
•VERY INTERESTING...........
By Carlos M
•Recién empecé. Pinta bien!
By balagopal p k
•Mind Blowing course...!!!
By primejack
•A bit hard for beginners
By Rajat S
•it was really worth it.
By Muhammed A E f a
•it is so awesome course
By Ketha J S
•Excellent Course.
By Fabio B
•Very good course!
By Yug A
•Awesome course !
By Joel N
•Excelente curso
By Ahmed m a a f
•thank you
By Mauro S Q C
•Very good
By Naveen K
•good
By 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..
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