Robotics – Self Paced

The Modern Robotics Curriculum 2025 is an AICTE-aligned, advanced course designed for engineering students, robotics enthusiasts, and professionals aiming to master robot kinematics, dynamics, motion planning, and robotic control systems. This comprehensive program covers both the theoretical foundations and practical applications of modern robotics, equipping learners with the skills to design, analyze, and control robotic manipulators, mobile robots, and hybrid motion-force systems.

Participants will gain in-depth knowledge of robot configuration spaces, rigid-body motions, forward and inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, motion planning algorithms, and advanced control techniques. The course also explores grasping, manipulation, wheeled mobile robots, and nonlinear optimization, ensuring a holistic understanding of robotics systems.

Course Curriculum Highlights:

Module 1: Introduction to Modern Robotics

• Overview of modern robotics and applications

• Robot types and configurations

Module 2: Robot Kinematics & Motion

• Configuration space and topology

• Degrees of freedom and rigid-body motions

• Rotation matrices, angular velocities, and exponential coordinates

• Homogeneous transformation matrices

Module 3: Advanced Kinematics

• Forward and inverse kinematics

• Velocity kinematics and statics

• Closed-chain kinematics

Module 4: Dynamics & Motion Planning

• Dynamics of open chains

• Trajectory generation techniques

• Motion planning: C-space obstacles, graph search, grid and sampling methods

• Virtual potential fields and nonlinear optimization

Module 5: Robot Control Systems

• Motion control with velocity, torque, or force inputs

• Force control and hybrid motion-force control

• Error response and control system tuning

Module 6: Grasping & Manipulation

• Single-contact analysis

• Planar graphical methods and friction modeling

Module 7: Mobile Robots

• Wheeled mobile robots and omnidirectional systems

• Controllability and odometry

By completing this course, learners will develop the ability to design sophisticated robotic systems, implement advanced motion planning algorithms, and control robots for real-world applications, making them highly competitive in robotics, automation, and AI industries.