Introduction to Robotics

Instructor	Teaching Assistants
Seth Hutchinson 158 CSL	Sal Candido candido@illinois.edu 1514 Beckman Institute Office Hours: Wednesdays, 10-11 a.m. Robert Gregg rgregg@illinois.edu 164 CSL Office Hours: Mondays, 11-12 a.m.
Homework Solutions	Lab Resources
Homework 1, Solution Homework 2, Solution Homework 3, Solution Homework 4, Solution Homework 5, Solution Homework 6, Hints	Lab Manual. Please don't print this using the lab printer. Lab 2 Starter Code Lab 3 Starter Code Lab 4 Starter Code Labs 5 & 6 Starter Code Robotica package and manual. To install Robotica, copy the package to: {Mathematica}/AddOns/ExtraPackages

Exams
Exam 1: will be at 7:00, Tuesday, Oct. 21 in Rm. EL 151. Exam 1 will cover chapters 1-4 of the text (homogeneous transformations kinematics, inverse kinematics, velocity kinematics). Final Exam: will be at 7:00, Wednesday, Dec. 17 in DCL 1310.
Textbook
Robot Modeling and Control Mark W. Spong, Seth Hutchinson, M. Vidyasagar, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2005
Course Grading	Lab Grading
30% Homework 20% Lab 25% Midterm Exam 25% Final Exam (noncumulative)	Total of 15 points Lab 1: 1 point (6.7%) Lab 2: 2 points (13.3%) Labs 3-6: 3 points (20%)

Introduction to Robotics, Fall 2008