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Overview

The CCBR Lecture Series is a work-in-progress course on relevant robotics concepts by Rutgers Dynamics and other clubs from the CCBR Humanoid Collaboratory.

CCBR Lecture Series

instructors:

  • Will C. Forte, Rutgers University
  • Ryan Rudes, California Institute of Technology
  • Donny Lu, California Institute of Technology

the plan:

  • Lecture 1: The Philosophy & History of Underactuated Design (Will)
  • Lecture 2: Basic Control Theory: State Spaces and PID (Will)
  • Lecture 3: Design Case Study: MIT Mini Cheetah (Will)
  • Lecture 4: Advanced Control Theory: LQR and MPC (Will/Donny)
  • Lecture 5: Introduction to Reinforcement Learning (Ryan)
  • Lecture 6: Deriving PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization) (Ryan)
  • Lecture 7: IsaacSim Workshop (Ryan)
  • Lecture 8: BLDC Actuator Design (Donny/Will)
  • Lecture 9: Power Distribution Principles (Will)
  • Lecture 10: Advanced Manufacturing (Donny)