Introduction to Robotics

Wheeled robot carrying doll in its arm.

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.)

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MIT Course Number

2.12

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Undergraduate

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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.

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Harry Asada, and John Leonard. 2.12 Introduction to Robotics. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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