Robotics & Automation roadmap

Kinematics, dynamics, control and AI-driven robotics.

Start with Robotics Foundations, follow the steps in order, then build a project, prepare for interviews and earn your certificate.

Foundations

  1. Robotics Foundations — Anatomy, actuators, sensors and frames. What robots are, their actuators and sensors, the matrix maths behind them, and frames, rotations and homogeneous transforms.
  2. Manipulator Kinematics — Joints ↔ poses. Forward kinematics with DH parameters, inverse kinematics, Jacobians, singularities and statics.

Core skills

  1. Dynamics, Control & Trajectories — Making robots move precisely. Actuator sizing, PID tuning, manipulator dynamics and joint control, servo motion control and trajectory generation.
  2. Motion Planning & Mobile Robots — Finding collision-free paths. Graphs, configuration space, A*, RRT and PRM planners, and mobile robot navigation.

Advanced

  1. Perception, Estimation & Robot Learning — Seeing, localising, learning. Kalman filtering, machine vision, cameras and 3-D perception, SLAM, and imitation and reinforcement learning.
  2. Industrial Automation — Robots at work. PLCs, industrial networks, industrial robot applications, robot cell design and safety, and Industry 4.0.

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