Penn Robotics Specialization
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- Опубликовано: 15 ноя 2015
- Promo Video for the Robotics Specialization on Coursera from Penn Engineering: www.coursera.org/specializati...
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Thanks for your comments and interest in our Robotics courses! No hardware or software purchases will be required. Enrolled students will use MATLAB, free of charge.
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Thank you for your answer. It's great news that we won't have to bought expensive hardware to pas the course. On the other hand, other courses in coursera give us the possibility (completely optional, without any reperscusion in our mark) of use a real robot to put in practice the theory. In my opnion, this was the most enjoyable part.
Maybe, you haven't prepared nothing in this way but you could give us advices to test the theory in different hardware, homemade or comercial quadcopters.
Thank you in advance for any advice. :)
+Jordi Guerrero Great spirit. I'm also doing the course.
+Jordi Guerrero, i think we should work with a real quadcopter, I would buy the crazyflie 2.0, we must create a facebook group to facilitate communication.
+Victor alfonso arias (Pythonicos) Make the group. We ll all work together. It ll be great.
+Penn Online Learning Hello, We are thankful for providing us with the Education online. Today, this course was supposed to begin. Could you please tell me why has it not started yet?
Love this course.
I have seen Prof Vijay Kumar in TED, that was aweeeeeeeesome !!!
Great opportunity to learn from UPenn. Its 15th of January 2016. The start of first course was scheduled today. Why has it not started yet?
I'm interested in this course. What hardware or simulator are you going to use for the first part (Aerial Robotics)?
Fantastic i planned to enroll in the program.
Interested in the course as well - need to know what hardware will be required to be bought by the student.
Can I use Octave in lieu of MatLab?
What are the prerequisites for this course? The course page suggests only basic calculus, linear algebra, and probability, but the course material seems to include much more advanced material.
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Hi
I'm interested in registering for the Robotics specialization on Coursera, however, i noticed that courses 1, 2 and 3 all start on March 14th.
Is that a schedule conflict or that's how the course series is structured?
Will there be any use of ROS?
I am interested in this course however i have never used matlad is it not a requirement to be able program?
Nice Course
my hero, Vijay Kumar \m/
Amazing. Really neat.
Hi , I am glad that there is such useful content to learn from , actually I studied mechanical engineering science and currently I work as a solution engineer in a company works in Industrial Automation projects , I am highly interested in the topic of Robotics , my question is what is the requirements to enroll in this specialization considering the fact that I have different academic background ?
+Ahmed Eldaw Mechanical Engineering actually involves a lot with the material here. I'm also ME major, my job doesn't have anything relate to robotics, yet I'm working on this specialization. I did Aerial, Motion Planning and Mobility so far and found Motion Planning was challenging due to my lack of programming skill. But you learn as you go and can re-take if needed to.
Will gnu octave 4.0.0 work correctly in lieu of Matlab for this course? I already enrolled in Andrew Ng's machine learning course which required gnu octave. I think I will continue using Octave since matlab is eventually non-free if you keep using it, correct?
+Geoffrey Anderson Will gnu octave run multiple cores? I built an Ubuntu machine for Data Science at Hopkins.
I recommend to use OpenBLAS to easily get some utilization of those multiple cores. You can get even more CPU utilization other ways but that's the easiest thing you can do right away without knowing a lot about programming.
The prerequisites citing just high school level math only seem a little optimistic since I saw the course material appears to be including mulltivariate calculus, newtonian motion physics or engineering mechanics, vectorized software programming, and linear algebra. I think I would not be able to perform this class material unless I already had a college degree in math or engineering. What is the staff opinion on it?
+Geoffrey Anderson I'm in single-variable calc, also at Penn. I forgot a lot in thirty years,What the class will likely teach you is that the precise math of years ago is obviated by rapid feedback in your control loops.
The so-called precise of math of years ago, is needed to compute the gradient which is a partial derivative. Unless you can get someone to give you the derivative, you have to get it yourself using calculus (or Python Sympy which is pretty nice! or maybe wolfram alpha not sure). Please notice that you must implement a gradient for every learning algorithm that you have encountered. COst and gradient are needed to train every continuous learning algorithm. Maybe for now at least you can live with Dr Ng giving you a gradient during the class, but then you wont get very far outside the class, since he is a busy man.
It's a little disappointing that the promotional material screams "Beginner Specialization: No prior experience required" when I'm pretty sure that students will need to have attained (and retained) a mastery level of at least three semesters of university calculus. How about listing what *is* required, instead of what isn't?