Natural and artifical robotics 2021

(http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~shshawin/teaching/naturalrobotics) (http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~shshawin) (blackboard)

An engineering design story (Debbie Sterling TEDx)

Debbie Sterling: TEDx

Natural and artifical robotics

This course has two parts,

part taught by Yoshi Hayashi will look at the mathematical foundations of serial chain linkages.
part taught by William Harwin, will apply these principles, along with other ideas in robotics in a rapid prototyping exercise and two novel robot designs.

Please note Due to the uncertainty of dealing with covid measures, it may be necessary to alter any part of this course at short notice.

Part 1 Robot Kinematics (YH)

Lectures for robot kinematics will commence on Tuesday 26th January 9:00am and will be each Tuesday there after.

Week 3: Introduction to forward kinematics I

Week 4: Introduction to forward kinematics II

Week 5: Introduction to inverse kinematics

Week 6: Half term

Week 7: Introduction to Jacobian

Week 8: Current topics in robotics (Tunde)

Week 9: Summary

The examination is expected to be online

Part 2 Engineering design challenge (WH)

Sessions for the 2021 Engineering design challenge will be as follows

Tuesday 12th January and 19th January at 9:00am
Wednesday 13th Jan to Wednesday 24th March at 11:00am
Mondays at 5pm (presentations) and 4pm (design reviews)
Friday from 3:30pm (design reviews)

Sessions will be (preferably) on Microsoft Teams, please look for the event in your MS Teams calendar or look for an email with the link. The 'fall back' will be to use Blackboard Ultra.

Teaching material will be on the site (http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~shshawin/teaching/naturalrobotics/) as well as on blackboard
Screencasts will be on blackboard
Portfolio submission will be via blackboard

There are two engineering design challenges and a short presentation.

	wk1	wk2	wk3	wk4	wk5		wk7	wk8	wk9	wk10	wk11
Individual design challenge	$\leftarrow$	$\rightarrow$
Design challenge 2		$\leftarrow$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$\rightarrow$
Design challenge 2 update					$\leftarrow$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$\rightarrow$
Individual presentations				$\leftarrow$	$-$	$-$	$-$	$\rightarrow$

An individual design challenge (wk 1-2)
A simulate and build design challenge (Design challenge 2 wk2-11).
An individual short presentation on an interesting robot (natural or artificial) based on an academic paper with supporting material from sources such as YouTube/Futurelearn. Details to be given in week 2. Presentations will commence in week 4.

Assessment

50% exam (Yoshi Hayashi) (Part 1)
10% Individual student presentations (Part 2)
40% portfolio of the projects (Part 2) - details to be given

W.S. Harwin 9/3/2021