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Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators 

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Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators
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NPTEL 
Overview

Duration

8 weeks

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

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Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators
 at 
NPTEL 
Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For undergraduate/graduate students interested in robotics and manipulators
More about this course
  • Learn algorithmic approaches, mathematical models, and computational and motion control methods applicable to robotic manipulator systems
  • Recognize and analyze the basic mechanical and electrical systems concerning robots
  • Analyze and design the basic robotic systems
  • Implement and investigate the performance of various control techniques to the robotic manipulators

Mechanics and Control of Robotic Manipulators
 at 
NPTEL 
Curriculum

Week 1:

Introduction: Effector: locomotion, and manipulation. Serial and parallel manipulators. Descriptions, Transformations and homogeneous transformation matrix.

Week 2:

Manipulator (serial manipulator) kinematics: Kinematic parameters, different notations, Denavit-Hartenberg (DH) representation, arm matrix. Forward and inverse kinematics. Analytical and numerical solutions. Examples

Week 3:

Differential kinematics: Differential (velocity) kinematics, velocity propagation, forward differential kinematics and inverse differential kinematics.

Week 4:

Jacobian matrix and Manipulator statics: Mapping between configuration-space to operational-space. Jacobian matrix and Pseudo inverse concepts. Introduction to workspace singularities.Manipulator statics: Conservation of energy or power, the mapping between operation-space to configuration-space inputs. Examples

Week 5:

Manipulator dynamics: Motion dynamics: Forward and inverse dynamics. Lagrangian (Lagrange-Euler) and Newton-Euler formulations. Examples

Week 6:

Dynamic simulation: Dynamic modeling of robotic manipulators and computer-based numerical simulations

Week 7:

Trajectory generation: Path and Trajectory. Configuration (joint) space trajectory and operational (task) space trajectory generations.

Week 8:

Control of robotic manipulators: Joint space and task-space control schemes.

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