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Yasir Aliyu
Alison ID: 50371804
Course Completed: Diploma in Robotics
Date Of Completion: 26th July 2025 Scan To Verify
Email ID: yasiraliyuaircraft@[Link]
Total Study Time: 0h 58m
Final Assessment Score:
Alison courses requires at least
80% to pass the final assessment
92%
CPD Hours Completed:
CPD approved learning hours
completed through this course
0-1h
Course Information
This diploma course covers the main themes in robotics, starting with the basics such as its origins. After
this, kinematics and the Diffie-Hellman (DH) algorithm are unravelled, along with important differential
relations. Although its roots go back to the fourteen or fifteen century, robotics is a relatively new science,
engineering discipline or industrial technology that is often misrepresented in the popular media. You will
learn that the history of modern robotics can be traced back to 1495 when Leonardo da Vinci designed a
mechanical device that looked like an armoured knight. Later, Czech playwright Karel Capec introduced the
word ‘robot’ from the Czech word, ‘robota’, meaning ‘tedious labour’. Then move onto to study the basic laws
that regulate robotics, such the Zeroth law, which says that a robot may not injure humanity or, through
inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. Industrial robots (manipulators), fields and service robots
(humanoids, medical robots and walking robots), and entertainment and educational robots are the three
main categories that you will explore next.
A robot's joints and links will then be discussed in the course material. Learn how joints provide relative
motion while links are rigid members between joints. There are various joint types, such as linear and rotary,
and each joint provides a ‘degree of freedom’. You will see how many degrees of freedom most robots
possess. Robot architecture is the combination and disposition of the different kinds of joints that configure
the robot’s kinematical chain. As you progress through the course, you will be taught that the relative position
and orientation of the axes of two successive joints can be specified by two link parameters, link length and
link twist angle. You will also learn that you can represent the orientation in joint co-ordinates by the YPR
(yaw, pitch and roll) convention. In rectangular or Cartesian co-ordinates, the same can be represented by a
rotation matrix R, where the three columns of R correspond to the normal, sliding and approach vectors
respectively. You will discover that in order to manipulate objects, it is required to control both the position
and orientation of the tool/end effector in a three-dimensional space.
Finally, you will study robot path planning: such a problem is formulated in a tool-configuration space, and
robot motion is controlled at the joint space. You will discover that one of the potential problems with solving
for joint space velocity is the non-existence of inverse, and the Jacobian matrix may not be invertible for all
the values. Find out at which points in joint space, Jacobian loses its rank and why there is a reduction in the
number of independent rows and columns. As part of analysing the Jacobian matrix, you will study joint
spaces singularities and learn that the interior singularity is potentially troublesome, as it is formed when two
or more axes form a straight line. This course will be of great interest to industrialists who might use robots in
their factories or who are investigating automation. Students of mechanical engineering, especially those
specializing in robotics, will also find this course particularly interesting.
Modules Studied
Module 1: Fundamentals of Robotics
Module 2: Robotics and Kinematics
Module 3: First Assessment
Module 4: DH Algorithm
Module 5: Kinematics
Module 6: Differential Relations
Module 7: Second Assessment
Module 8: Course assessment