Robotics Systems Engineering

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the foundational principles of robotics systems engineering, including robot classifications, coordinate frames, and the systems engineering lifecycle as applied to robotic platforms.
• 2 Understand robot kinematics and dynamics, covering forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobian analysis, and the equations of motion that govern robot behavior.
• 3 Apply actuator and sensor technologies by analyzing motor types, drive electronics, encoder feedback, and the sensor modalities used for perception and state estimation.
• 4 Explore robot control architectures, including PID control, computed torque control, and behavior-based systems for autonomous decision-making.
• 5 Implement robot operating system frameworks, understanding the ROS 2 computation graph, node communication patterns, and real-time execution constraints.
• 6 Develop robot perception pipelines using point cloud processing, camera calibration, object detection algorithms, and sensor fusion techniques.
• 7 Analyze motion planning and path planning algorithms, including configuration space theory, sampling-based planners, and trajectory optimization methods.
• 8 Build mobile robot navigation systems covering simultaneous localization and mapping, occupancy grids, and autonomous navigation stacks.
• 9 Understand human-robot interaction design principles, including safety standards, collaborative robot specifications, and user interface design for robotic systems.
• 10 Create a complete robotics system integration framework by applying systems verification, validation testing, and functional safety certification processes.