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:
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✓6 weeks each
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✓2 x 1 hour lectures per week, with formative quizzes to consolidate knowledge
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✓Weekly assessment for grades
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✓Weekly programming assignments in MATLAB (autograded)
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✓Delivered via the familiar Open edX software platform from EdCast
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1.Introduction & motivation
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2.Where things are in 2D
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3.Where things are in 3D
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4.Creating smooth motion
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5.Measuring motion
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6.Robot arms & forward kinematics
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7.Inverse kinematics
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8.End point velocity & Jacobians
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9.Over & under actuation
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10.Robot independent joint control
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11.Rigid body dynamics
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12.Future of robotics & ethics
Robotics, Vision & Control chapters 1-3, 7-9.
Introduction to Robotics
10 Aug – 27 September 2015
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1.Robotic Vision
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2.Getting images into the computer
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3.Image processing
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4.Spatial operators
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5.Feature extraction
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6.What is color?
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7.Image formation
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8.Image geometry
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9.3D vision
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10.Advanced image processing
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11.Vision and motion
Robotics, Vision & Control chapters 10-13, 15.
Robotic Vision
19 Oct- 7 Dec 2015