ROBOTICS

The objective of this course is to equip the reader with the scientific and technical knowledge to develop advanced applications in industrial robotics... Because robotics implies by essence the development of robotic systems, every theoretical notion we introduce will be accompanied by practical software examples and exercises. Our objective is that, by the end of this course, the reader will be able to use and/or develop advanced real-world robotics applications... This course is completely free, and so is all the required software, as we shall use only (state-of-the-art) open-source software, such as ROS, OpenRAVE, OpenCV, PCL, etc. Hardware is emulated through Gazebo, an open-source, high-quality, physics simulator, such that there is no need to purchase any hardware.