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