C Advanced Robotics (formerly Electronics and Circuits)

Catalog description

Term hours: 45 lecture and 27 laboratory. This course is the last of the three series in Robotics and focuses on actuator design, embedded computing, and complex response processes. Concepts of dynamic response as relates to vibration and motion planning will be presented. The principles of operation and interface methods with various actuators will be discussed, including pneumatic, magnetic, piezoelectric, linear, stepper, etc. Complex feedback mechanisms will be implemented using software executing in an embedded system. The necessary concepts for real-time processor programming, re-entrant code and interrupt signaling will be introduced. (CSU)