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Mobile Robots and Navigation

Differential drive, odometry and its drift, occupancy grids, shortest paths with breadth-first search and A*, and the ideas behind SLAM.

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6 topics in 2 units. Builds on Feedback and Control and Sensing and Estimation. Leads to ROS 2 and Simulation and Capstone Projects and Careers. Not sure this is the right course? Find your rung.

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Unit 1 Driving and Dead Reckoning

2 topics

How two wheels steer a robot, and how it keeps track of where it is.

  1. Differential Drive
  2. Odometry

Unit 2 Maps and Paths

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Grids, shortest paths and the ideas behind SLAM.

  1. Occupancy Grids
  2. Shortest Paths on a Grid
  3. A* Search
  4. Drift, Landmarks and SLAM