From the surface of Mars and the far reaches of our Solar System to the bottom of the ocean, robots are helping us expand our scientific understanding of the universe. In our everyday life, devices that gather information and interact with the environment are ever-present, taking over many of the undesirable or dangerous tasks that humans had to perform previously. Fundamental to all these robotic devises is their ability to sense the environment, reason about it, and then plan and safely execute the best action. This course is designed as an advance graduate course with a focus on design and operation of robot systems; dynamics, control, and motion trajectories of mobile robots; vision, LIDAR, SONAR and tactile sensing systems; state estimation; planning and learning.
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