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.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Harry Asada
Prof. John Leonard
MIT Course Number
2.12
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Lecture notes
- Projects and examples
- Assignments: problem sets (no solutions)
- Assignments: programming (no examples)
- Exams (no solutions)
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.
