Autonomous Navigation, Part 2: Understanding the Particle Filter
16 min
Beginner
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This video presents a high-level understanding of the particle filter and shows how it can be used in Monte Carlo localization to determine the pose of a mobile robot inside a building. We...
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Stanford Engineering Everywhere: CS223A - Introduction to Robotics
Beginner
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The purpose of this course is to introduce you to basics of modeling, design, planning, and control of robot systems. In essence, the material treated in this course is a brief survey of...
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Radar Tutorial (English)
Beginner
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This page provides a detailed overview of radar principles and technologies, including mathematical, physical and technical explanations. “Radartutorial” explains the fundamentals of radar...
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An introduction to Beamforming
14 min
Beginner
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This video talks about how we actually have more control over the shape of the beam than just adding additional elements, or adjusting the position and orientation of the elements. We can...
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An Introduction to the Kalman Filter
45 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a practical introduction to the discrete Kalman filter. This introduction includes a description and some discussion of the basic discrete Kalman...
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Free Video Course in Radar Systems Engineering
Beginner
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This Free Radar Systems Engineering Course (video, audio and screen captured ppt slides) and separate pdf slides) has been developed as a first course in Radar Systems for first year...
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 4: The Walking Robot Problem
14 min
Beginner
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This video shows how to use the reinforcement learning workflow to get a bipedal robot to walk. It also looks at how to modify the default example to make it look more like how one would set...
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Understanding Sensor Fusion and Tracking, Part 1: What Is Sensor Fusion?
12 min
Beginner
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This video provides an overview of what sensor fusion is and how it helps in the design of autonomous systems. It also covers a few scenarios that illustrate the various ways that sensor...
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 3: Policies and Learning Algorith...
17 min
Beginner
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This video provides an introduction to the algorithms that reside within the agent. We’ll cover why we use neural networks to represent functions and why you may have to set up two neural...
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Modeling Physical Systems, An Overview
7 min
Beginner
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This video sets the stage for the topics that I want to cover over the next month or two. This is an overview of how you go from a physical system to a linear model where you can design a...
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Model Predictive Control
12 min
Beginner
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This lecture provides an overview of model predictive control (MPC), which is one of the most powerful and general control frameworks. MPC is used extensively in industrial control settings...
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Adaptive Control Basics: What Is Model Reference Adaptive Control?
17 min
Beginner
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Use an adaptive control method called model reference adaptive control (MRAC). This controller can adapt in real time to variations and uncertainty in the system that is being controlled...
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Understanding Kalman Filters, Part 3: An Optimal State Estimator
7 min
Beginner
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Watch this video for an explanation of how Kalman filters work. Kalman filters combine two sources of information, the predicted states and noisy measurements, to produce optimal, unbiased...
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DC Motor Speed: System Modeling
Beginner
Project
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This examples walks through modeling a simple DC motor in MATLAB.
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Reinforcement Learning for Engineers, Part 2: Understanding the Environment ...
13 min
Beginner
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In this video, we build on our basic understanding of reinforcement learning by exploring the workflow. We cover what an environment is and some of the benefits of training within a...
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Using the Control System Designer in Matlab
53 min
Beginner
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In this video we show how to use the Control System Designer to quickly and effectively design control systems for a linear system. We show how to add multi...
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 7: 4 Ways to Implement a Transfer Function...
18 min
Beginner
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In some situations, it is easier to design a controller or a filter using continuous, s-domain transfer functions. We have a lot of mathematical tools that make analyzing and manipulating...
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Understanding Kalman Filters, Part 2: State Observers
8 min
Beginner
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Learn the working principles of state observers, and discover the math behind them. State observers are used for estimating the internal states of a system when you can’t directly measure...
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Understanding PID Control, Part 6: Manual and Automatic Tuning Methods
13 min
Beginner
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The previous video showed three different approaches to developing a mathematical model of your physical system. Now that we have this model, we can use it to tune a PID controller that will...
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What's a Control System and Why Should I Care? A whirlwind tour through the ...
60 min
Beginner
Article / Blog
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This paper aims to provide some introduction, a cheat sheet, and some context for college level STEM students about to take that first controls class. In some cases, it provides context...
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Machine Learning Control: Tuning a PID Controller with Genetic Algorithms (P...
9 min
Beginner
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This lecture shows how to use genetic algorithms to tune the parameters of a PID controller. Tuning a PID controller with genetic algorithms is not generally recommended, but is used to...
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The Radar Equation | Understanding Radar Principles
Beginner
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Learn how the radar equation combines several of the main parameters of a radar system in a way that gives you a general understanding of how the system will perform. The radar equation is a...
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Control Systems in Practice, Part 9: The Step Response
15 min
Beginner
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This video covers a few interesting things about the step response. We’ll look at what a step response is and some of the ways it can be used to specify design requirements for closed loop...
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What Are Dynamic Models? Chapter 1 from Dynamic Models in Biology
Beginner
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Throughout this book we use a wide-ranging set of case studies to illustrate different aspects of models and modeling. In this introductory chapter we describe and give examples of different...
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FMCW Radar for Autonomous Vehicles | Understanding Radar Principles
18 min
Beginner
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Watch an introduction to Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar and why it’s a good solution for autonomous vehicle applications. This demonstration will show how FMCW radar can...
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