Tell the Robots: Robotics and Motion Planning

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 28, 2026 · 1h 1m

Čapek, Unimate, Shakey and A, the DARPA challenges, Kiva and Amazon; forward and inverse kinematics, Jacobians, redundancy and singularities; Kalman filters and Monte Carlo localisation; SLAM from Smith–Self–Cheeseman to graph optimisation, ICP, ORB-SLAM, loop closure and perceptual aliasing; Dijkstra, A, D Lite, hybrid A; configuration space (Lozano-Pérez); PRM, RRT, RRT-connect, RRT; CHOMP, TrajOpt, MPC; OctoMap, Dex-Net, suction; impedance and hybrid force control, cobots, GelSight; ZMP, ASIMO, Raibert and Boston Dynamics, ANYmal; imitation learning, ALOHA, diffusion policy, RT-1, RT-2…