Definition and classification of ROBOTS and manipulators, motion and degrees of freedom, motion categories, uses, field of applications, Robot Arm Kinematics: Direct and Inverse, Robot arm dynamics, Manipulator trajectories, control of robot manipulators. Introduction to sensing and vision in robotics.
Textbooks:
[1] K. S. Fu, R. C. Gonzalez and C.S.G. Lee, ROBOTICS: Control, Sensing,Vision and Intelligence, McGraw-Hill, 1987.
[2] B. K. P. Horn, Robot Vision, MIT Press, Cambridge,1986.
[3] J. J. Craig, Introduction to Robotics, Addision-Wesley,1989.
[4] Y. Koren, Robotics for Engineers, MsGraw Hill,1985.