Design of Electromechanical Robotic Systems

Calendar

SES #	LECTURES	KEY DATES
1	Introduction to the class! Project deliverables System Design: Concepts of the process and an overview
2	Linear Systems 1/2: Properties and examples Project meeting	Assign HW 1
3	Linear Systems 2/2: Convolution and the Fourier transform
4	Spectra 1/2: Properties and tools Project meeting	Assign project proposal (due in 1 week) Collect HW 1 Assign HW 2
5	Spectra 2/2: Applications
6	Overview of Experiments, Data, Testing, and Presentations Project meeting	Collect project proposal Collect HW 2 Assign HW 3
7	Probability and Random Variables
8	A Prototype Random Environment: Marine vessels in seas Project meeting	Collect HW 3 Assign HW 4
9	Long- and Short-term Statistics
10	System Design: Revisited, tools and applications	Collect HW 4 Assign HW 5
11	Machine Elements 1/2: Gears and bearings Project meeting	Collect HW 5 Assign HW 6
12	Machine Elements 2/2: Mechanical linkages
13	Optimization 1/2: Varieties of optimization methods for design Project meeting	Collect HW 6 Assign HW 7
14	Optimization 2/2: Dynamic and linear programming	Assign milestone presentation (due in one week)
15	Simulation and Design for Uncertainty 1/2: Monte Carlo techniques Project meeting	Collect HW 7 Assign HW 8
16	Simulation and Design for Uncertainty 2/2: Quadrature techniques Milestone presentations	Collect milestone presentation slides
17	Navigation Systems 1/3: Absolute reference Project meeting	Collect HW 8 Assign HW 9
18	Navigation Systems 2/3: Relative reference
19	Navigation Systems 3/3: Physics of underwater acoustics Project meeting	Collect HW 9
20	Feedback 1/3: The connection with uncertainty
21	Feedback 2/3: Selected topics in control implementation Project meeting	Assign final presentation draft slides (due in one week)
22	Feedback 3/3: Discrete-time signals and control Project meeting	Collect final presentation draft slides Assign ethics readings Assign final presentation (due in one week)
23	Engineering Ethics 1/2: Overview and case studies
24	Engineering Ethics 2/2: Case studies Final presentations
25	Final presentations (cont.)	Collect final presentation slides