Knowledge of the C programming language is required to do the assignments in all of the classes in this minor.
Credit is by mastery examination.
This course will relate these topics to applications ranging from factory to medical use. Furthermore, students will tour the labs of the Robotics Institute. This course will also expose students to some of the contemporary happenings in robotics, which includes robot contests and robot web surfing. Included are selection of measurements and manipulated variables, definition of transfer functions, creation of block diagrams and closed loop configurations. The course also covers concepts of open loop and closed loop stability and tuning of PID controllers.