Robotics Labs Course, Tel Aviv University, Mechanical Engineering

Labs Content

In each lab there is an instructions file. Be sure to follow it.

• Lab 1: Introduction to the Kinova Gen3 Lite arm

• Lab 2: Forward Kinematics

• Lab 3: Numerical Inverse Kinematics

• Lab 4: Path Planning

• Lab 5: Visual Servoing Control

• Lab 6: Motion Planning for a mobile robot

• Final Project

Installation

Required Python version and module

• Python >= 3.5
• pip

Install Kortex Python API and required dependencies

(Source: Kortex Github)

Install what is needed to run the examples via a downloaded whl file (Python wheel package).

The whl file can be downloaded via the Kinova Artifactory: kortex_api

On Linux:

python3 -m pip install <whl relative fullpath name>.whl

Note: root privilege is usually required to install a new module under Linux.

On Windows:

python -m pip install <whl relative fullpath name>.whl

Note: Robot default IP address: 192.168.1.10