COMP 514. Applied Robotics.
Credits: 4
Offered by: Computer Science (Faculty of Science)
Terms offered: Winter 2026
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Description
The approach and the challenges in the key components of manipulators and locomotors: representations, kinematics, dynamics, rigid-body chains, redundant systems, under-actuated systems, control, planning, and perception. Practical aspects of robotics: collisions, integrating sensory feedback, and real-time software
development.
- Prerequisites: MATH 223, MATH 323, COMP 206, and COMP 250, or equivalents.
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken COMP 597 when the topic was "Applied Robotics".
- Students should be comfortable with C++ (such as from COMP 322) and a Unix-like programming environment.