Introduction to Soft Robotics
Offered in Autumn at SDU Odense Campus
Level: Master (5 ECTS)
Teachers: Associate Prof. Jonas Jørgensen, Assistant Prof. Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu and Prof. Ahmad Rafsanjani
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to soft robotics and reviews recent works and research in this field. Soft robots are an emerging class of robots that take inspiration from natural organisms and deal with constructing robots from highly compliant materials to create soft machines that can adapt to a wide variety of tasks. The teaching encompasses theoretical and practical work on actuation and perception mechanisms, sensing technologies, control strategies, and design and fabrication techniques for soft robots. It also surveys several cases of implementing these elements in soft robotic systems. Alongside the theoretical, and methodological study, students will gain hands-on experience working with soft robotics through lab exercises and work on a final group project and build a soft robot prototype.
Bioinspired Autonomous Systems (Soft Robotics Module)
Offered in Spring at SDU Odense Campus
Level: Master (5 ECTS)
Teachers: Assistant Prof. Saravana Prashanth Murali Babu and Associate Prof. Jonas Jørgensen
This course enables students to (i) choose appropriate bio-inspired learning techniques to solve learning problems in autonomous robotic systems, (ii) identify relevant bio-inspired perception, control, navigation, and learning techniques for the design of autonomous robotic systems, (iii) develop and implement bio-inspired methods for perception, actuation, control, navigation, or learning in simulated environments or in physical hardware, and (iv) evaluate and improve bio-inspired techniques applied to autonomous systems.