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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Modern Robotics, Course 2: Robot Kinematics by Northwestern University

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    About the Course

    Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental
    mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and
    Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope
    to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 2 of the specialization, Robot Kinematics, you will
    learn to solve the forward kinematics (calculating the configuration of the "hand" of the robot based on the joint values) usin...
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    Oct 1, 2018

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    It is a great start for learning kinematics of open chain robots, i wish i could learn ore about the closed chain robots too, but they have given the boost, now its your turn to learn more and more

    RM

    Jul 8, 2020

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    This was very challenging course if you are not already familiar with things like Jacobians and eigenvectors. Thankfully the lectures were great in helping me understand the gaps in my knowledge.

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    By Dmitry P

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    Jan 18, 2020

    The program of course is done brilliant. Once i have tried to read Robotic book on my own and gave up on after 100 pages and gave up being completely confused in the formulas. Now with the Course i am on the 300 s page following the content! Thanks!

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    By Pau C C

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    Feb 19, 2019

    Very interesting course. It not only covers inverse kinematics but also manipulability and some statics coming from the Jacobian. The Jacobian singularities and its implications are very clear and well explained.

    Small drawback is that it's better not to use the library that comes with the course as otherwise you won't learn so much. I implemented my own and learned a lot by implementing it.

    Another small drawback is that there is no mention to Conformal Geometric Algebra as something to look at to implemente analytical solutions to inverse kinematics. Neither, iterative FABRIK as alternative to pseudo-Jacobian is mentioned. A mention and a reference would be nice for the learner as presudoinverse jacobian is very limited.

    The other drawback, which is major, is that assignments are peer-graded instead of unit tested. It's not ideal at all. Hopefully they will be unit-tested at some point in time so that it's more fair and efficient.

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    By Lucia C V

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    Aug 6, 2020

    If you have never used MATHLAB or if you don´t have previous knowledge o Robotics, avoid this course. You only get frustration and no assistance at all with your doubts.

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    By Madhukar T

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    Jul 12, 2018

    As I am looking forward to be expertise in the field of Modern Robotics (Robotic Manipulators), this course sets the perfect platform for the same. After going through this course, I have learned the very crucial part - Robot Kinematics. The way video lectures are made are always engulfing. But, in this course, the peer graded assignment posed some real challenge and gave real time experience of how robotic manipulators/mobile robots perform.

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    By Arnab C

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    Jan 3, 2019

    Loved the course and the difficulty level of it. The assignment in particular will be good challenge for MATLAB beginners like me as you'll need to figure out how to do it. But its easy enough and if you have some programming experience, you can do it easily. What I love about this course is that it doesn't spoon feed you. You need to work hard to get all the benefits from the course.

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    By Onur A

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    Feb 3, 2019

    As a graduate student who has taken multiple Robotics courses in university, I can say that it is a very instructive course. However, it may seem tedious for those who are not familiar with Robotics. One last thing, I preferred Denavit Hartenberg method until this course. Now I can see that PoE is much more efficient than DH.

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    By Rishipal S

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    Jun 5, 2019

    The course has provided me a good insight into forward kinematics and reverse kinematics solutions. Earlier I could think of how to solve open chain forward kinematics problems only but now I have much better idea about the whole subject. A great course!

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    By sukrita p

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    May 9, 2020

    Great course to understand the kinematics of open chain robots. The topic is very vast and innumerable documentation and resources make it difficult to follow. This specialization has done a good job in breakind down the topics into sequential parts.

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    By TANMAY K

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    Nov 26, 2018

    Excellent course.It helped me to improve my programming at much higher level and I got good knowledge.Initially before taking this course I was worried whether I would complete this course but thanks to Kevin sir for such a great teaching

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    By 李彦霖

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    Jun 12, 2018

    The course is really interesting and the instruction is really good. Thanks for professor Lynch.One advice: since the closed chain is important, I wish that these knowledge and examples could be given more, thanks!

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    By Natish M

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    Aug 2, 2023

    The course was richly supported with materials and videos. The whole course was easy to learn and good. I thank my course instructors and fellow learners. I thank Coursera without whom this would not be possible !

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    By Tri W G

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    Aug 15, 2018

    Very nice and compact explanation. Love the teaching style! You have to read the book to really grasp the material, if you're planning on taking this course, you have to take it seriously. It's pretty though.

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    By SAMARTH

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    Oct 1, 2018

    It is a great start for learning kinematics of open chain robots, i wish i could learn ore about the closed chain robots too, but they have given the boost, now its your turn to learn more and more

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    By Ronald M

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    Jul 8, 2020

    This was very challenging course if you are not already familiar with things like Jacobians and eigenvectors. Thankfully the lectures were great in helping me understand the gaps in my knowledge.

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    By rashid K

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    Apr 3, 2020

    Fantastic course. Required good amount of reading. Lecture clearly mentioned how to navigate and learn from the book. Overall very good course. Really loved the project.

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    By Juan O

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    May 27, 2024

    I'd like the course to explain everything in a more "intuitive" way, but the exercises and knowledge helped me a great deal to advance in my understanding in robotics

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    By Ahmed H A A

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    Sep 11, 2020

    The product of exponential method of computing forward kinematics makes alot of sense. The only issue is with the closed-loop kinematics chapter.

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    By mahdi b

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    Nov 18, 2021

    Thank you for your awesome course. I personally recommend you to solve more example to make courses more practical and comprehensive

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    By RAMAN S

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    Aug 22, 2020

    excellent course, a lot to learn from this course, especially improves programming skills and use of Coppelia sim software

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    By Marti V R

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    Mar 13, 2021

    Great course, introduces you to robot kinematics well. Week 2 is definitely the most challenging one but well worth it!

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    By Purnajyoti “ B

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    Aug 5, 2019

    The lessons from this course are great. They help understand the practical applications from Course 1's lessons.

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    By Ashan W

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    Nov 21, 2023

    I am extremely thankful to Professor Kevin Lynch and his team for putting in the effort to create this course.

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    By Bruno C F

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    May 5, 2020

    Sou extremamente grato por essa oportunidade. Vocês estão fortalecendo a minha carreira e da minha equipe.

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    By ANSHAY A

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    Dec 2, 2020

    Awesome course.

    Only lacking in the forum support, I hope instructors indulge more actively in the forum

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    By Kaushal S

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    Oct 13, 2021

    Good mathematical background. Meaningful and thought provoking questions in assignments and project.

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