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    Learner Reviews & Feedback for Modern Robotics, Course 3: Robot Dynamics by Northwestern University

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    About the Course

    Do you want to know how robots work? Are you interested in robotics as a career? Are you willing to invest the effort to learn fundamental
    mathematical modeling techniques that are used in all subfields of robotics? If so, then the "Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and
    Control" specialization may be for you. This specialization, consisting of six short courses, is serious preparation for serious students who hope
    to work in the field of robotics or to undertake advanced study. It is not a sampler. In Course 3 of the specialization, Robot Dynamics, you will
    learn efficient numerical algorithms for forward dynamics (calculating the robot's acceleration given its configuration, velocit...
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    PN

    Apr 15, 2025

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    Good course. Providing learners academic knowledge, programming skill, and using state of the art software.

    JC

    Jun 20, 2018

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    Interesting course, it helps a lot in understanding and applying the material in the textbook.

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    By Ashish R

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    Feb 3, 2019

    Far too much focus on theory with little to now focus on application. The course in its current state is incomplete, adding on some realistic problems to convey the concepts would be better.

    Wrapping your head around all the wall of math and then answering theory questions with no link established to a real life examples makes the course "difficult". Meaning it could be made easier to understand but wasn't (not intentionally of course, just teaching style i guess).

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    By Huzefa L

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    Mar 19, 2020

    Great Course, learned a lot, but the solutions to the quizzes or questions are not provided for many questions once the correct answer is selected for them. Someone could easily pass the quiz by guesswork without understanding the logic behind getting the answer. That is what happened with me for one of the questions. Without the solutions, I have no idea about the logic behind getting that answer and feel like I have still more to learn.

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    By Tri W G

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    Feb 27, 2019

    Great lectures and great book. Very challenging, dont take it if you dont have much time.

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    By Pei-Chen W

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    Dec 21, 2020

    really good course. I wish I can have more challenging robotics courses in the future.

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    By Maksym B

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    Feb 20, 2020

    Great course! I especially liked last two weeks dedicated to trajectory generation.

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    By Zhaoqi Z

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    Aug 26, 2019

    It is better if the "given program" is published in each course.

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    By Chris S

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    Mar 13, 2019

    The material is interesting. The videos could benefit by providing some bridging from theoretical to practical as some parts get too heavy into the math without really explaining to you what it means in the real world. There are some parts, such as the section on actuators, motors, etc that really start making you feel like your working on a robot. The peer graded assignments isn't the most effective method of evaluation as it all depends on the quantity of people enrolled in the course. Good course over all.

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    By Wenping S

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    Sep 4, 2023

    In the course there is almost nothing about the content of the exam. I have no ideas about the solutions to any of the problems in Chapter 9.

    Everything in the book about Chapter is also very simple but with everything I learned so far from the book it is impossible to work out the problems in the book as well.

    I want an explanation for that!!!!!

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    By E. A P R

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    Oct 5, 2020

    I've been trying to figure out how to enter the solutions that I get from the matrices, but every time I enter a matrix following the rules it gives me, it tells me this one tells me No Output.

    Nor I have had a feedback on my questions and the stuff of the course is not very attentive to solving the doubts about it.

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    By Omer F O

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    Mar 22, 2024

    not usefull

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    By Phi S N

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    Apr 16, 2025

    Good course. Providing learners academic knowledge, programming skill, and using state of the art software.

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    By Juan C C

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    Jun 21, 2018

    Interesting course, it helps a lot in understanding and applying the material in the textbook.

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    By Swapneel B M

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    Oct 14, 2018

    Concepts and Explanation is great if you are trying to go into robotics career

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    By Shivoh C

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    Jul 4, 2019

    Thankyou sir , it was a wonderful journey into the depths of Robot Dynamics !

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    By Aditya V

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    Apr 30, 2020

    Good Explanations and Great Peer-Graded Assignment

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    By Ajmeet S D

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    Dec 18, 2020

    Great course. More examples would be helpful

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    By Julien T

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    Feb 22, 2021

    Great course in a great series of courses

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    By AHMED S

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    Apr 11, 2023

    Very interisting course I enjoy it .

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    By Colin L

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    Nov 28, 2019

    This course is really helpful to me

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    By Kamnev Y

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    Feb 10, 2019

    Excellent and useful!

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    By EL F A

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    Sep 29, 2023

    Excellent content

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    By Luis A A S

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    Dec 4, 2024

    Amazing teacher

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    By Akshat B

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    May 1, 2021

    Great Course!

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    By Bernardo D

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    Nov 18, 2021

    excelente

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    By ZhangXin

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    Oct 2, 2022

    good

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