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Robotics and Motion Lab (Information/Resources)

Last update: June 20 , 2025

MATLAB

Tutorial on creating simple animations. Animate sunrise/sunset YouTube link. MATLAB file.

After learning the tutorial try to make an animated face. Here is a YouTube link to students' work in my robotics class.

3D printing and machining

TurtleBot

Manipulator

Darwin op2

Install gcc and x11 on mac
Download the zipped file darwin_animation.zip
Unzip the file and follow the instructions in the read_me file which includes two things: 1) set path to textures in animate.c, and 2) in terminal type ./run
If you do above steps correctly you will see the following animation, darwin_animation.mp4

Minitaur quadruped

Open source quadruped

Rowdy walker

Simulations

Writing

ASME style template for submitting independent study reports and course project reports
How to create plots and edit plots for paper. See the video description for MATLAB file.
Getting started with latex

Windows 1) Download miketex (https://miktex.org/) and install; 2) Download texStudio and install (http://www.texstudio.org/)
Mac 1) Download and install miketex for mac (https://miktex.org/howto/install-miktex-mac); 2) Download and install texShop (http://pages.uoregon.edu/koch/texshop/)
After installing mikeTex and editor (texStudio or texShop), download this latex example file and open the template.tex file in the editor and press the green button that says ">" on texStudio or type Apple key + T on texShop. This will create a pdf file template.pdf, which is the final result.

MuJoCo

Instructions on getting MuJoCo C version working. See read_me.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions
A1 trotting and keyboard control on windows. See read_me.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions
Instructions on running own startup scripts on A1 hardware . See read_me_startup_script.rtf (opens with wordpad/word) for instructions