Robotic Manipulation Reading Group:


BOOK | PEOPLE | CHAPTERS | MEETINGS | LINKS


Book:

"A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation." Richard M. Murray, Zexiang Li, and S. Shankar Sastry. CRC Press, Inc., 1994. Online PDF


People:

  • Howie Choset
  • Amir Degani
  • Matt Tesch
  • Ross Hatton
  • Gabriel Goldman
  • Dmitry Berenson
  • Ethan Tira-Thompson
  • Howard Guo
  • Stuart Anderson
  • Octavio Juarez Espinosa
  • Tong Tao
  • Kevin Peterson

Chapters:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Brief historical background.

 

Chapter 2: Rigid Body Motion

 

Chapter 3: Manipulator Kinematics

 

Chapter 6: Hand Dynamics and Control

 

Chapter 7: Nonholonomic Behavior in Robotic Systems


Meetings:

  • Meeting #1  [Dec 3, 2009] [Chapter 1, Chapter 2 up to section 3 included] [Highlights & Homework]
  • Meeting #2  [Dec 10, 2009] [Chapter 2: up to section 4 included]
  • Meeting #3  [Chapter 2: up to section 4 included]
  • Meeting #4  [Chapter 2: up to section 4 included
  • Meeting #5  [Complete Chapter 2]
  • Meeting #6  [Chapter 2: Problems]
  • Meeting #7  [Chapter 2: Problems and Chapter 3: Forward Kinematics]
  • Meeting #8  [Chapter 3: Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, and Manipulator Jacobian] 
  • Meeting #9   [Review of Twists, Screws and Wrenches]
  • Meeting #10 [Review of Appendix : Differential Geometry]
  • Meeting #11 [Review of Appendix : Lie Groups and Lie Algebras]
  • Meeting #12 [Review of Appendix : Lie Groups and Lie Algebras]
  • Meeting #13 [Review of Appendix : Left Invariant Vector Fields]
  • Meeting #14 [Non Holonomic Behavoir of Robotic Sytems : Non Holonomic Behavoir of Robotic Sytems]
  • Meeting #15 [Read Chapter 6, Section 1]
  • Meeting #16  [Read Chapter 7: Sections 1 and 2]
  • Meeting #17  [Read Chapter 7: Sections 1, 2 and 3]
  • Meeting #18  [Read Chapter 7: Sections 1, 2 and 3]
  • Meeting #19  [Read Chapter 7: Sections 1, 2 and 3]
  • Meeting #20  [Read Chapter 7: Sections 3]
  • Meeting #21  [Read Chapter 7:Section 4, Chapter 8:Sections 1&2]
  • Meeting #22  [Read Chapter 8: Sections 1, 2 and 3] 

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