Week	Date	Lectures	Self-Study	Assignments/Exams
1	TBA	Introduction to Robotics [What is a Robot?, What is Robotics?, Science Fiction, Science Facts, Robots Today, Robot Statistics and Robots’ Future]
2	TBA	Industrial Robot Morphology [What is an Industrial Robot?, Basic Definitions, Geometric Classification, Elements of Industrial Robot and Commercial Industrial Robots]	Robot Statistics and Market Penetration Report
3	TBA	Kinematics [Kinematics, Robots as Mechanisms, Matrix Representation, Homogenous Transformation Matrices, Inverse of Transformation Matrices and Forward and Inverse Kinematic Equations]
4	TBA	Trajectory Planning [Path versus Trajectory, Joint-Space versus Cartesian-Space Descriptions, Basics of Trajectory Planning, Joint-Space Trajectory Planning and Cartesian-Space Trajectories]
5	TBA	Motion Control [Industrial Robot Control, Control Techniques, Motion Control, Electromechanical Systems Dynamics and Position Control]	Literature Survey Paper
6	TBA	Programming [Industrial Robot Programming, Programming Methods and Robot Language Development]		Midterm Exam [Includes material from Weeks 1-6]
7	TBA	Mobile Robotics [Autonomous Systems, From Manipulators to Mobile Robots, Mobile Robot Classifications and Challenging Problems of Mobile Robots]	Unmanned Vehicles: Types and Applications Report
8	TBA	Locomotion Systems [Robot Locomotion, Legged Mobile Robots (Walking Machines), Leg Configurations and Stability, Wheeled Mobile Robots (Driving Robots), Wheels Types, Wheel Arrangements and Mobility Configurations]
9	TBA	Positioning Systems [Mobile Robot Kinematics, Differential Drive Kinematics, Mobile Robot Positioning, Odometry for Differential Drive, Systematic and Non-Systematic Odometry Errors and Measurement of Odometry Errors]	Paper Critics
10	TBA	Recursive State Estimation [Uncertainty in Autonomous Systems, State Estimation, Bayesian Rule, Markov Models and Markov Localization]
11	TBA	Environment Mapping [World Modeling, Metric Mapping, Occupancy Grid Framework, Occupancy Grid-based Mapping and Case Study]		Course Project
12	TBA	Motion Planning [Configuration Space, Graph Search Algorithms, Road Map Planning Approaches, Cell Decomposition Approaches and Potential Field Method]		Final Exam [Includes material from Weeks 7-12]