24-662   Special Topics: Robotic Systems and Internet of Things

This course presents an overview of Robotic Systems (RS) and Internet of Things (IoT), and how these two systems can be integrated into a larger framework, Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT). In the first half of the semester, students gain knowledge and skills related to RS and IoT through lectures and hands-on problem sets that introduce to students how RS and IoT components work and how they can be linked. The hands-on problem sets use common RS/IoT components such as industrial robot manipulators, mobile robots, vision sensors, online databases, and mobile devices. Building on the general knowledge and skills thus gained, students work in the second half of the semester is project-focused. Student teams of 4-5 members design, build, test and demonstrate either a component or a system of IoRT. Teams meet with the course instructors regularly to incrementally extend and improve their IoRT component/system. This course is intended for graduate and upper class undergraduate students who have already learned at least one of the technical skills related to RS (for example: mechanism design, kinematics, dynamics, mechatronics, sensors, control, and machine learning). Prior experience with at least one procedural programming language like C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python will be strictly enforced.