Basic Robotic Behaviors and Odometry

"Basic Robotic Behaviors and Odometry" provides you with an introduction to autonomous mobile robots, including forward kinematics (“odometry”), basic sensors and actuators, and simple reactive behavior. This course is centered around exercises in the realistic, physics-based simulator, “Webots”, where you will experiment in a hands-on manner with simple reactive behaviors for collision avoidance and line following, state machines, and basic forward kinematics of non-holonomic systems. An overar

• Model mechanisms, sensors, and actuators in a physics-based online simulator
• Understand basic reactive and discrete controllers
• Perform forward kinematics computations for simple (non-)holonomic mechanisms

• Basic programming knowledge
• Fundamental mathematics concepts