The course introduces the fundamentals of robotics, viewed as an application domain for computer science, intelligent systems, and machine learning; provide students with the basic tools to integrate and program a robotic system, with special attention to the realization of perception-action schemes and behaviour control; improve students' experimental work capacity, through the analysis of case studies and laboratory work.
• Introduction to robotics: main definitions, illustration of application domains
• Mechanics and kinematics of the robot
• Sensors for robotics
• Robot Control
• Architectures for controlling behaviour in robots
• Robotic Navigation
• Tactile Perception in humans and robots
• Vision in humans and robots
• Analysis of case studies of robotic systems
• Project laboratory: student work in the lab with robotic systems