This course covers the design, construction, and testing of field robotic systems, through team projects with each student responsible for a specific subsystem.

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

416 years, 7 months

Units & Quizzes

15

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Certificate of Completion

Projects focus on electronics, instrumentation, and machine elements. Design for operation in uncertain conditions is a focus point, with ocean waves and marine structures as a central theme. Topics include basic statistics, linear systems, Fourier transforms, random processes, spectra, ethics in engineering practice, and extreme events with applications in design

Course Currilcum

  • Concepts of design Unlimited
  • Experiments, tests, and data Unlimited
  • Electronics essentials Unlimited
  • Design for the ocean environment Unlimited
  • Applying optimization Unlimited
  • Stability and trim Unlimited
  • General presentation guidelines Unlimited
  • Corrosion in marine environments Unlimited
  • Important vehicle power sources Unlimited
  • Topics in machine elements Unlimited
  • Navigation sensors and systems Unlimited
  • Basic physics of underwater acoustics Unlimited
  • Introduction to discrete-time systems Unlimited
  • Feedback control Unlimited
  • Control system design Unlimited