IIT Madras offers free 12-week online course on robotics for students. Last Date -1/8/2022

 

IIT Madras offers free 12-week online course on robotics for students

Introduction to robotics

By Prof. Asokan T, Prof. Balaraman Ravindran, Prof. Krishna Vasudevan | IIT Madras

ABOUT THE COURSE :

This course is a bridge-course for students from various disciplines to get the basic understanding of robotics. The mechanical, electrical, and computer science aspects of robotics is covered in this introductory course.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Undergraduate/graduate students interested in robotics

Summary

Course Status : Upcoming

Course Type : Core

Duration : 12 weeks

Start Date : 25 Jul 2022

End Date : 14 Oct 2022

Exam Date : 30 Oct 2022 IST

Enrollment Ends : 01 Aug 2022

Category : 

Design Engineering

Robotics

Credit Points : 3

Level : Undergraduate/Postgraduate

Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to robotics- History, growth; Robot applications- Manufacturing industry, defense, rehabilitation, medical etc., Laws of Robotics

Week 2: Robot mechanisms; Kinematics- coordinate transformations, DH parameters

Week 3: Forward kinematics, Inverse Kinematics

Week 4: Jacobians, Statics, Trajectory Planning

Week 5: Actuators (electrical)- DC motors, BLDC servo motors

Week 6: Sensors , sensor integration

Week 7: Control – PWM, joint motion control, feedback control

Week 8: Computed torque control

Week 9: Perception, Localisation and mapping

Week 10:Probabilistic robotics, Path planning, BFS; DFS; Dijkstra; A-star; D-star; Voronoi; Potential Field; Hybrid approaches

Week 11: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Week 12:Introduction to Reinforcement Learning

Books and references

Robert J Schilling, Fundamentals of Robotics, Prentice Hall India, 200

John J Craig, Introduction to Robotics, Prentice Hall International, 2005

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 30 October 2022 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: 

https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc22_de11/preview 

Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.

Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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