MECH 564 Fundamentals of Robot Mechanics and Control

Welcome to the lab companion site for MECH 564: Fundamentals of Robot Mechanics and Control at Colorado State University. This Jupyter Book collects the notebook-based lab material used in the course and provides a single place to access the exercises, simulations, and demonstrations.

Course Overview¶

This website is organized around the lab sequence for the course. Each notebook introduces a robotics topic, provides code examples or derivations, and supports hands-on practice with kinematics, dynamics, control, and simulation.

Lab Sequence¶

• Lab 1: Intro to Python

• Lab 2: Forward Kinematics

• Lab 3: Inverse Kinematics and Dynamics

• Lab 4: Robot Control

• Lab 5: Quadruped Trot Demo

Getting Started¶

Each lab is provided as a Jupyter notebook that you can directly run in Google Colab. The notebooks contain both explanatory text and executable code cells.

Acknowledgements¶

• Preparation of these lab materials was assisted by GitHub Copilot and Claude Code.