Advanced Robot Control Systems

Description

Students will learn what are the fundamental components of advanced robot control systems, and how the robot must/can interact with its environment, and with the task it has to perform. Students will achieve insight in what are solved problems, and where the tough research and innovation challenges lie, in the various complementary aspects of an advanced robot control system: kinematics, control, estimation, modelling, perception, and systems-level software engineering. Students will make their own "robot skill", to let a robot execute a task, or rather, to let it coordinate the execution of several tasks at the same time. A variety of platforms will be made available (mobile robots, serial arms, legged robots) with an embedded Linux computer as their "brain".