Mobile Robotics

Course: Mobile Robotics

Code: 3ФЕИТ01009

ECTS points: 6 ECTS

Number of classes per week: 3+0+0+3

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Elizabeta Lazarevska

Course Goals (acquired competencies): To master the techniques for mobile robots localization, planning and navigation and to be able to successfully implement them in navigating a mobile robot.

Course Syllabus: Introduction: history, classification, application, examples of mobile robots. Locomotion: legged and wheeled mobile robots, configurations and actuators, mathematical models of mobile robots kinematics and dynamics. Sensors for mobile robots: sensor classification, non/vision and vision sensors. Mobile robot localization: classification, speed, position and orientation of a mobile robot based on sensor information, fusion of sensors information, application of Kalman filters. Mobile robots planning and navigation: planning and navigation algorithms, map representation, avoiding of obstacles, trajectories planning. Aerial and under water mobile robots. Multi-robot systems.

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