Topic 1 - Introduction

What is a robot?

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A robot is the sum of:

Sensors
Actuators
Computing
Communication
Ability to move
Intelligence (AI)

The objective is to make robots autonomous!

How?

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We need a lot of things!

Localization
Mapping
Robot Kinematics
Task allocation
Planning

We will not focus too much on the robot kinematics, as it is more ingeniering than computer science.

Building a robot is very complicated but awesome!

Robot Autonomy Architecture

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As you can see you need a lot of things to make a robot autonomous.

It is impossible to cover everything in one course, but we will try to introduce most of it and go deeper for specific topics.