ME 5250 — Robot Mechanics and Control
4 semester hoursGraduateLectureusually offered: fall, springtypical days: TBostonOnlineSeattle, WATraditionalVideo Streaming
Covers kinematics and dynamics of robot manipulators, including the development of kinematics equations of manipulators, the inverse kinematics problem, and motion trajectories. Employs Lagrangian mechanics to cover dynamics of manipulators for the purpose of control. Covers control and programming of robots, steady state errors, calculations of servoparameters, robot vision systems and algorithms, as well as imaging techniques and the concept of mobile robots.
Prerequisites
- one of:
- ME 4555 (min D-)
- graduate program admission
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 3 | 67 | 143 | 47% | 25.3 |
| Spring 2024 | 3 | 66 | 189 | 35% | 41.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 3 | 96 | 156 | 62% | 20.0 |
| Spring 2025 | 3 | 79 | 189 | 42% | 36.7 |
| Fall 2025 | 3 | 82 | 128 | 64% | 15.3 |
| Spring 2026 | 3 | 51 | 208 | 25% | 52.3 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 18% · T 62% · W 7% · Th 21% · F 40%
Common patterns: TF (33% of sections), T (29% of sections), MR (10% of sections), R (10% of sections), MW (7% of sections), F (7% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Bahram Shafai (34% of students) · reviews
- John Whitney (33% of students) · reviews
- Yasin Yazicioglu (32% of students) · reviews
- Niveditha Kalavakonda Chandrasekar (0% of students) · reviews
Spring
- John Whitney (59% of students) · reviews
- Bahram Shafai (40% of students) · reviews
- Niveditha Kalavakonda Chandrasekar (1% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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