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Virginia Tech

ME-5704: Robotics and Automation

Description: Automation, mechatronics, robot technology, kinematics, dynamics, trajectory planning, and control of two-dimensional and spatial robots; robot programming; design and simulation of robotic devices. Laboratories associated with robot forward/inverse kinematics, task planning, velocity kinematics, force rendering, control, haptics, mobile robotics, mapping/localization, computer vision and path planning. Pre: Graduate standing.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: ME-6604

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: ECE-5704

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 3.37 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 35.77%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 1.28%

Dylan P Losey202449.1%33.3%14.2%0.0%3.4%0.0%3.212
Tzvi Pinhas Ben202141.4%47.9%8.1%0.0%0.0%2.6%3.323
Hamed Kaveh Akbari202284.6%15.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.851

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Spring 2019Spring 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024Term050% W