In this year's final
project, 2.12 students built a rescue robot to find and carry a doll, representing a victim of disaster, to the "emergency room." (Image from video by Phil Shaltis. Used with permission.)
Course Highlights
Course Description
This course provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics include planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning; mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots, multi-rigid-body dynamics, 3D graphic simulation; control design, actuators, and sensors; wireless networking, task modeling, human-machine interface, and embedded software. Weekly laboratories provide experience with servo drives, real-time control, and embedded software. Students will design and fabricate working robotic systems in a group-based term project.
Special Features
Technical Requirements
Special software is required to use some of the files in this course: .rm, .mov, .zip.