Each lecture opens as slides in the browser, with its demos built in. Lectures are added here as they are posted.

1. Lecture10

   Battery, Power Design, System Design

   Robots as systems of sensors, compute, actuators, and power; how lithium-ion batteries work and how they reached the market; what a BMS does, from protection and balancing to state of charge and health; and how to pick and size a battery for a robot, from drones to docking and swapping.

   • Try it: build a battery pack
   • Try it: how long will it last?
   • Battery runtime planner
   Open slides
2. Lecture11

   System Design Exercise

   How to design a complete sensing and navigation system on your own: turning a need into measurable requirements, choosing sensors with a trade study, predicting localization error with drift analysis and an error budget, checking that frames, timing, data, and power fit together, and finding how the system fails. It also introduces the twelve scenarios, the report, and the five-slide presentation.

   • The twelve scenarios
   • Rank failures: S, O, D, and RPN
   • Scenario sign-up form
   Open slides

More lectures will appear here as they are converted.

Every demo opens as its own short page and runs the same Python script used in class, in the browser, with no install. Each page also has a notebook: cells you can edit and run right there, or download as a Jupyter notebook.