39 / ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMY
ME 5704 : Robotics and Automation : Automation , mechatronics , robot technology , kinematics , dynamics , trajectory planning , and control of two-dimensional and spatial robots ; robot programming ; design and simulation of robotic devices . Laboratories associated with robot forward / inverse kinematics , task planning , velocity kinematics , force rendering , control , haptics , mobile robotics , mapping / localization , computer vision and path planning .
ME 5735 : Advanced Mechatronics : Electromechanical design and control applications . Design and building of electronic interfaces and controllers for mechanical devices , sensors , signal acquisition , filtering , and conditioning . Microcontroller-based closed-loop control and device communications . Sensor and actuator selection , installation , and application strategies .
ME 5736 : Advanced Mechatronics II : Electromechanical design and control applications . Design and building of electronic interfaces and controllers for mechanical devices , sensors , signal acquisition , filtering , and conditioning . Microcontroller-based closed-loop control and device communications . Sensor and actuator selection , installation , and application strategies .
ME 5864 : Advanced Micro / Nano-Robotics : Overview of micro / nano-robotic systems , physics of reduced length scales ( scaling effects in the physical parameters , surface forces , contact mechanics , and micro / nano-scale dynamical phenomena ), basics of micro / nano manufacturing , microfabrication and soft lithography , biomimetic design strategies for mobile micro-robots , principle of transduction , material properties and characteristics of micro / nano-actuators ( piezoelectric , shape memory alloy , and a variety of MEMS and polymer actuators ), control requirements and challenges of micro / nano-actuators , micro / nano sensors for mobile microrobotic applications , micro / nano-manipulation
( scanning probe microscopy , operation principles , designing experiments for nanoscale mechanical characterization of desired samples ).
ME 5874 : Experimental Robotics : Robot Operating System ( ROS ) installation and operation , Linux , MATLAB and TCP communication with ROS , Integration of sensor , actuator , microcontroller and onboard computer , Object recognition , Simultaneous localization and mapping , Bayesian control .
ME 5914 : Autonomous Systems Seminar : Weekly technical presentations from local and visiting scholars on current topics related to the theory , design and development , and application of autonomous vehicle systems .
ME 5984 : Robotic Interaction , Manipulation , and Assembly
SUPPORT COURSES IN CONTROL SYSTEMS & SIGNAL PROCESSING
ME 5506 : Advanced Control Engineering
ME 5544 : ( AOE 5744 / ECE 5744 ) - Linear Systems Theory : Advanced introduction to the theory of timevarying and time-invariant linear systems represented by state equations ; solutions of linear systems , uniform stability and other stability criteria , uniform observability and controllability , state feedback and observers .
ME 5554 : ( AOE 5754 / ECE 5754 ) - Applied Linear Systems : Develop an applied understanding of state-space representations for linear time invariant multi-input multi-output dynamic systems in both time domain and frequency domain . Introduction to modern state-space control methods ; state feedback and output feedback . Realistic design problems with numerical simulations of practical implementations .