Academic Catalog

CENG782 PLANNING OF ROBOTIC MANIPULATION

Course Code: 5710782
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Computer Engineering
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Manipulation in humans and robots. Rigid body motion; spatial displacements and rotation; Euler angles. rotation matrices. quarternions. screws and wrenches. Manipulator kinematics; forward and inverse kinematics. manipulator Jocabian. Rigid body statics; contact models. wrench cones. line of force and moment labelling. Friction; Coulomb s Law. friction cones. Quasi static manipulation; pushing. Grasping; force- and form closure. grasp synthesis. map. stability and quality. Planning; configuration space. probabilistic roadmaps. radiply exploring random trees. single and multi-query planning. trajectory optimization and human robot interaction.