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Review: Control of Mobile Robots taught by Dr. Magnus Egerstedt

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I'm always on the lookout to learn more about robotics. As such I recently completed Dr. Egerstedt 's class Control of Mobile Robots  on Coursera. And let me tell you I thought the class was excellent. This was not my first course on mobile robotics and I don't suggest it as an introduction. The class comes in two flavors, paid and free. I took the free version as the main differences seem to be having the optional programming assignments graded (more about those later) and getting a certificate of completion. As I mentioned before, the course includes optional programming assignments. I adored these and encourage everyone in the course to try them. The course provides a temporary MatLab license which I'm very pleased to see. However, I'm a little disappointed that it's in MatLab rather than Octave. This would allow students to continue building on this course long after the MatLab license would have expired. Dr. Egerstedt also provides resources to build t
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A First Post

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Before I go on too many rants about robotics and other things that interest me I figured I'd make a starting-off post. I have not blogged before and, like meeting a new crowd of people at once, it's a bit intimidating. I doubt anyone will ever read this post, which is exactly what I want. I'm posting this to ease myself into pressing that publish button. I've spent hours writing and rewriting another post in fears that it wouldn't be well received, and it still might not be. But publishing this post is really about just putting something out there and screaming into the abyss.
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