Short Course on Robotics and Autonomous Systems

 Modeling, Dynamics, and Control

South China University of Technology

May 24-26, 2017

F.L. Lewis : Systems and Controls Group, UTA Research Institute

Course webpage

Robotics and Autonomous Systems Modeling, Dynamics, and Control

Class Schedule

May 24   8:00-9:40

       State Variable Dynamical systems

       Simulation using MATLAB

       Dynamics of four representative systems

May 25   13:00-18:00

       Robot Dynamics

              Computed torque control

              Adaptive and Robust control

       Human-robot interaction (HRI)

       Kalman Filter for Sensor Fusion

May 26   13:00-16:10

       Overview of Autonomous systems

Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) dynamics

              Potential Field Motion Control

       Quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Dynamics

              Quadrotor control by backstepping

       Fixed wing aircraft UAV

              Flight control

Stability, control, and autopilots