The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modelling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of relevant results from geometry, kinematics, statics, dynamics, and control.The course is presented in a standard format of lectures, readings and problem sets. Lectures will be based mainly, but not exclusively, on material in the Lecture Notes. Lectures will follow roughly the same sequence as the material presented in the notes, so it can be read in anticipation of the lectures.Topics: robotics foundations in kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, trajectory generation, programming and design.

Prerequisites: matrix algebra.

• Abstract This chapter presents a brief history of robotics and one of its most successful applications, surgical robotics. The first section describes the beginning of this technology, from 1950 to 1980, when the basic concepts and technologies were developed. The second section addresses the development of robotic surgery, which has established itself as a necessary complement to standard surgical practice. The third section briefly summarizes some of the current research efforts in robotic surgery, and the fourth section introduces the main commercial surgical robots available on the market. The final section describes the most important robotic concepts that are necessary to understand the main features of any surgical robot.

Introduction to Robotics Marc Toussaint February 4, 2014 This is a direct concatenation and reformatting of all lecture slides and exercises from the Robotics course (winter term 2013/14, U Stuttgart), including a topic list to prepare for exams. Download speed learning english rar. Sorry for the sometimes imperfect formatting.