Introduction to Intelligent Robotic Systems

CSCI5551 Spring 2025 at The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

M, W 1:00PM-2:15PM CT - Keller Hall 3-111

The goal of this course is to introduce students to robotics principles, covering key topics such as 3D transformations, robot kinematics, forward and inverse kinematics, path planning, configuration spaces, sampling-based planning, basic motion control algorithms, and state estimation for mobile robots, which includes introduction to mapping, localization, and SLAM. Students will gain hands-on experience in programming robots in the threejs environment. In a later project, we plan to have a real-world robot challenge. There will be a open-ended final project where students can apply their skills acquired throughout the semester to explore new ideas. They will present their projects to a wider audience through a poster presentation with videos and demos.

This course builds on and is indebted to materials from -