MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering

For entry in the academic year beginning September 2027, the tuition fees are as follows:

• MSc (full-time)
  UK students (per annum): £15,400
  International, including EU, students (per annum): £40,300

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This unit introduces students to the field of robotic manipulation, which is widely used in several application areas, from manufacturing to surgery, agriculture to social care. Manipulators allow robots to interact with their environment and are critical to their full potential to assist humans with tasks. Students will learn how to create kinematic and dynamic models for manipulators before developing a range of controllers to enable them to complete tasks.

-Homogenous matrices rigid body transformation 
-Foward kinematics model/Inverse kinematics
-Differential (inverse) kinematics
-Kinematic control through Jacobian (pseudo-)inversion I
-Robot control basics and kinematic control II
-Dynamics modelling: Lagrange Formulation
-Dynamics of general robotic manipulator
-Dynamic control methods
-Modelling and Control in Robot Applications 

This course unit aims to provide students with understanding of rigid body motion and robotic manipulators in a theoretical and practical level, enable the students to model robotic manipulators, and enable the students to design linear and nonlinear controllers for robotic manipulators.

On successful completion of the course, a student will be able to:

ILO 1: Describe the key components of a robotic manipulator and evaluate the effectiveness of end-effectors for a given task.

ILO 2: Formulate kinematic and dynamic models for robotic manipulators.

ILO 3: Design and implement appropriate closed-loop controllers for robotic manipulator tasks.

ILO 4: Analyse the control system performance against appropriate metrics.

ILO 5: Present scientific data to professional engineering and/or lay audiences.

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Robot Modeling and Control, 2nd Edition, Mark W. Spong,Seth Hutchinson,M. Vidyasagar, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2020 ISBN: 978