Course description
Modern autonomous and robotic systems vastly rely on mechatronics to perform intended tasks. This course focuses on the practical aspects and application of state-of-the-art technologies in autonomous and robotic platforms including various active/passive sensors, actuators, hardware interfaces, control systems, and software/firmware interaction with the hardware.
This course is designed with a focus on hands-on experience. Alongside the lectures, there will be multiple laboratory sessions and demos, to implement the theoretical understanding of various concepts. After completing the course, delegates will be awarded with the certificates.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is aimed at design engineers, technical staff working within automotive industry. It is also suitable for engineers, technology enthusiast, who want to gain in depth knowledge via hands on experience.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- Identify the main components of robotics and autonomous systems
- Recognize key operational blocks within a typical mechatronics control system
- Identify and understand the capabilities of various active/passive sensors and related hardware interfaces.
- Integrate sensors and actuators in a control system with OTS components
- Identify and evaluate the degree of interactions with the processor and select the hardware for the optimum performance.
- Identify software/firmware control blocks and the interaction with hardware
Training Course Content
Core content
- Introduction to Analog/Digital Electronics basics
- Embedded systems and sensors demonstrations
- Processing Electronics and demonstrations
- Embedded Software and algorithms
- Control system design - Obstacle detection
- Actuator control
- Kalman filter, PID controller
- Robotic and autonomous systems control strategies
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