Checking date: 06/05/2025 12:52:19


Course: 2025/2026

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Bachelor in Robotics Engineering (Plan: 478 - Estudio: 381)


Coordinating teacher: BARBER CASTAÑO, RAMON IGNACIO

Department assigned to the subject: Systems Engineering and Automation Department

Type: Compulsory
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Previous knowledge in Robot Programming and Machine Learning is required.
Objectives
The objective of this course is to provide students with knowledge of mobile manipulator modeling, control, perception, and environmental modeling for navigation, manipulation, and grasping, as well as learning different tasks and applications.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction: a. What is a mobile manipulator? b. Service robots: mobile manipulators, humanoid robots. 2. Kinematic and dynamic: mobile base -manipulator coordination. Control architectures. 3. Mobility. a. Perception: vision, telemetry. b. Environment modeling. The three-dimensional problem. c. Planning, navigation and location of mobile manipulators. 4. Manipulation and interaction control a. Perception: vision, force sensors. b. Force control c. Grasping d. Perception and modeling of the objects to be manipulated e. Perception-action integration 5. Human-robot interaction in navigation and manipulation 6. Real applications. Projects related to mobile manipulators
Learning activities and methodology
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CLASSES. The knowledge students must acquire will be presented. They will receive class notes and basic reference texts to facilitate class follow-up and subsequent work. Students will solve exercises and practice problems, and workshops and assessment tests will be held to acquire the necessary skills. TUTORIALS. Individual assistance (individual tutorials) or group assistance (collective tutorials) will be provided to students by the instructor. INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK FOR STUDENTS. An individual assignment will be provided for each of the practical sessions, and a group assignment will coordinate the knowledge acquired in both practical sessions. WORKSHOPS AND LABORATORIES. Two two-hour practical sessions will be held using simulators, with 100% in-person attendance. One practical session will focus on mobile manipulator navigation, and the other on manipulation.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Andreas Nüchter. 3D Robotic Mapping. Springer. 2009
  • Cuesta, F., & Ollero, A.. Intelligent Mobile Robot Navigation . Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2005
  • Fernando Reyes Cortés. Robótica. Control de robots manipuladores 2.ª edición. Marcombo. 2024
  • Gerasimos Rigatos , Krishna Busawon. Robotic Manipulators and Vehicles. Springer. 2018
  • Rafael Kelly , Victor Santibáñez Davila , Antonio Loría. Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space. Springer. 2005
Additional Bibliography
  • Barber, R.; Ortiz, F.J.; Garrido, S et all.. A Multirobot System in an Assisted Home Environment to Support the Elderly in Their Daily Lives. MDPI. 2022
  • M. Nieuwenhuisen et al.. Mobile bin picking with an anthropomorphic service robot. IEEE . 2013
  • Mora, A. Prados, A. Mendez, G.Espinoza, P. Gonzalez, B.Lopez, V.Muñoz, L.Moreno, S.Garrido, R.Barber. ADAM: A Robotic Companion for Enhanced Quality of Life in Aging Populations. Frontiers. 2024

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.