ME 5250 - Matlab Robotics Toolbox

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ME 5250: Robot Mechanics and Control is a graduate level course on the kinematics, dynamics, control, and programming of robot manipulators. Early on in the course, I gave a workshop on how to model simple 6-DOF manipulators in Matlab using the Robotics Toolbox. We covered the following topics:

  • Transform and Quaternion math
  • Forward & inverse kinematics & dynamics
  • Jacobians and velocity control
  • URDFs and ROS integration

We demonstrated simple FK/IK calculations, moving a robot manipulator in cartesian space and plotting the results in a 3D GUI.