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Introduction to Robotics with Webots Specialization

Introduction to Robotics with Webots Specialization

Launch Your Career in Robotics.. Implement a Complete Mobile Manipulation Pipeline in The Webots Simulator Using Python!

Instructor: Nikolaus Correll

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3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.3

(32 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months at 9 hours a week

Flexible schedule

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Share your expertise with employers

3 course series

Get in-depth knowledge of a subject

4.3

(32 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 months at 9 hours a week

Flexible schedule

Earn a career credential

Share your expertise with employers

What you'll learn

Forward and inverse kinematics of holonomic and non-holonomic mechanisms
Discrete planning of trajectories and behaviors for robots
Understand the sources of uncertainty in robotic sensing and actuation

Overview

The overarching learning goal of this specialization in robotics is to create an appreciation for the tight interplay between mechanism, sensor, and control in the design of intelligent systems. By the end of this specialization, you will be able to (1) formally describe the forward and inverse kinematics of a mechanism, (2) discretize the robot’s state from algorithmic reasoning, and (3) understand the sources of uncertainty in sensing or actuation and describe them mathematically. During this specialization, you will gain hands-on experience in Python and use the realistic robotic system simulator, “Webots”.

What’s included

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Taught in English

34 practice exercises

Advance your subject-matter expertise

Learn in-demand skills from university and industry experts
Master a subject or tool with hands-on projects
Develop a deep understanding of key concepts
Earn a career certificate from University of Colorado Boulder

Specialization - 3 course series

Learners will utilize the robotics simulator Webots to build their own simulations while learning. In this specialization, you will get "hands-on" with step-by-step instructions to implement a certain device or algorithm in Webots, then encourage you to explore this solution, extend or change it, and finally ask a question that ensures you have understood the concept. Hands-on activities lead to graded peer evaluations that will require reproducing previously learned concepts in the form of a well-defined behavior.

Emphasis on the first course of this specialization is on learning Webots and reading up on key concepts to build a foundation. Activities then gradually shift to include more hands-on activities in the second course of this specialization and culminate into a large project requiring the implementation of a complete mobile manipulation solution.

Basic Robotic Behaviors and Odometry

Course 128 hours4.4 (51 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

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.

Skills you'll gain

Control Systems, Simulation and Simulation Software, Artificial Intelligence, Linear Algebra, Embedded Software, Python Programming, Mechanics, Algorithms, and Programming Principles

Robotic Mapping and Trajectory Generation

Course 226 hours4.5 (11 ratings)View course

What you'll learn

Use basic feedback control techniques for inverse kinematics of (non-)Holonomic mechanisms.
Apply coordinate transforms to multi-dimensional sensor signals.
Understand basic probabilistic representations to deal with uncertainty from measurement noise.

Skills you'll gain

Python Programming, Global Positioning Systems, Image Analysis, Simulations, Algorithms, Computer Science, Real-Time Operating Systems, Linear Algebra, Data Mapping, Automation, and Artificial Intelligence

Robotic Path Planning and Task Execution

Course 343 hoursView course

What you'll learn

Use discrete planning techniques such as Dijkstra and A* to compute optimal robot trajectories.
Implement complex sequences of behaviors using behavior trees.
Plan and implement a complex robotic controller for autonomous mobile manipulation behavior.

Skills you'll gain

Algorithms, Simulations, Graph Theory, Computer Vision, Python Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Control Systems, Data Structures, and Real-Time Operating Systems

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Build toward a degree

This Specialization is part of the following degree program(s) offered by University of Colorado Boulder. If you are admitted and enroll, your completed coursework may count toward your degree learning and your progress can transfer with you.¹