This is a 2nd/3rd year Undergraduate module. Typically delivered to electrical and electronic BEng/Meng and MSc students. Education Aims: The module aims to introduce students to fundamental concepts in robotics and robot modelling through topics including: Direct and Inverse Kinematics, workspace and trajectory planning. Learning Outcomes: ? Knowledge of fundamental concepts in robot design and application. ? Ability to derive the homogenous transformation matrices for multi-degrees of freedom robotic systems. ? Ability to model the kinematic chains of robotic manipulators. ? Ability to analyse the kinematic chains to solve for the inverse kinematics. ? Ability to implement and relate theoretical analysis to physical observations of robotic systems The module teaches the fundamental theory and illustrates its application through a number of hands on examples and case studies