Mobile Robots

Mobile Robots treats a robot moving through the world as a coupled problem of motion, sensing, and belief — you model how wheels or legs actually constrain where the body can go, then close the loop with noisy sensors and a probabilistic estimate of where you are. The work centers on kinematic modeling (holonomic vs. non-holonomic constraints, maneuverability), Kalman-filter localization, and path planning, delivered through homework, a lab, and a term project built around Siegwart & Nourbakhsh. As a graduate-level entry point into autonomous robotics, it sets up the perception, SLAM, and planning machinery that downstream research in field robotics and autonomous vehicles assumes you already understand.