My two MOOCs are running again.  We start off again with robotics on August 7 and Robotic Vision on October 19.  All welcome and pass on the news.  Over 20,000 students in the first round earlier this year.  If you teach, consider using them as aid to classroom teaching.

http://petercorke.com/MOOCs.html

 

Robotics & Vision MOOCs

Two MOOCs coming this year, based on Robotics, Vision & Control:

  1. ✓6 weeks each

  2. ✓2 x 1 hour lectures per week, with formative quizzes to consolidate knowledge

  3. ✓Weekly assessment for grades

  4. ✓Weekly programming assignments in MATLAB (autograded)

  5. ✓Delivered via the familiar Open edX software platform from EdCast

  1. 1.Introduction & motivation

  2. 2.Where things are in 2D

  3. 3.Where things are in 3D

  4. 4.Creating smooth motion

  5. 5.Measuring motion

  6. 6.Robot arms & forward kinematics

  7. 7.Inverse kinematics

  8. 8.End point velocity & Jacobians

  9. 9.Over & under actuation

  10. 10.Robot independent joint control

  11. 11.Rigid body dynamics

  12. 12.Future of robotics & ethics

Robotics, Vision & Control chapters 1-3, 7-9.

Introduction to Robotics

10 Aug – 27 September 2015

  1. 1.Robotic Vision

  2. 2.Getting images into the computer

  3. 3.Image processing

  4. 4.Spatial operators

  5. 5.Feature extraction

  6. 6.What is color?

  7. 7.Image formation

  8. 8.Image geometry

  9. 9.3D vision

  10. 10.Advanced image processing

  11. 11.Vision and motion

Robotics, Vision & Control chapters 10-13, 15.

Robotic Vision

19 Oct- 7 Dec 2015