EEE 447/547  Introduction to Robotics

Spring 2025-2026

Reading Assignments

• Read the ``Historical Development'' handout and Ch.1 and 2 from Spong and Vidyasagar (introduction and forward kinematics)
• Read Ch.1 and 2 from Fu (introduction and forward kinematics)
• Read Ch.3 from Spong and Vidyasagar (inverse kinematics)
• Read Ch.4 from Spong and Vidyasagar (velocity kinematics---the Jacobian)
• Read Ch.3 from Fu (dynamics)
• Read Ch.7 from Spong and Vidyasagar (dynamics)
• Read Ch.5 from Niku, Ch.5 from Spong and Vidyasagar, Ch.4 from Fu (trajectory planning)
• Read Ch.6 from Fu (sensing) and the other handouts on sensing