This course covers the concepts and methods needed to understand how to move robots and make them interact with the physical world. We will study theoretical backgrounds and techniques to describe the configuration and state of a robot and to control its motion. The topics that will be covered in the lectures include the representation of three-dimensional movement, mechanisms (kinematics and dynamics), actuators, and dynamics-based feedback control. Students will also learn to use Google Colab and Python programming to build simulation and analysis tools.

This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

Honors project expectations are high. The intended end-product is a traditional project manuscript with accompanying artifact(s), all projects: - are 6 credits or more of sustained research on a single topic, typically conducted over two semesters. - begin with creative inquiry and systematic research. - include documentation of substantive scholarly endeavor. - culminate in a final presentation.

Honors project expectations are high. The intended end-product is a traditional project manuscript with accompanying artifact(s), all projects: - are 6 credits or more of sustained research on a single topic, typically conducted over two semesters. - begin with creative inquiry and systematic research. - include documentation of substantive scholarly endeavor. - culminate in a final presentation.

Honors project expectations are high. The intended end-product is a traditional project manuscript with accompanying artifact(s), all projects: - are 6 credits or more of sustained research on a single topic, typically conducted over two semesters. - begin with creative inquiry and systematic research. - include documentation of substantive scholarly endeavor. - culminate in a final presentation.

Honors project expectations are high. The intended end-product is a traditional project manuscript with accompanying artifact(s), all projects: - are 6 credits or more of sustained research on a single topic, typically conducted over two semesters. - begin with creative inquiry and systematic research. - include documentation of substantive scholarly endeavor. - culminate in a final presentation.

Digital communication can bring dispersed peoples and ideas closer together more rapidly than traditional mass communication, but it can also reinforce structures of domination, often along social differences, across the world more intensely. In this course, students will write an honors thesis that examines some aspect of the fraught relationship between digital communication and global society. We will ask how the impact of the new digital public sphere raises issues around free speech, privacy, information, and economic policy, among others.