YouTube Courses

Big Data Analytics

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An interdisciplinary introduction to big data spanning databases, statistical inference, machine learning, visualization, cloud computing, and data architecture.

• YouTube
• 19 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Chemistry - Rate Processes

Explores chemical kinetics from rate laws and reaction theories to ultrafast processes, reaction dynamics, and methods for controlling reactions.

• YouTube
• 1 day 13 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Ocean - Elements of Ocean Engineering

An engineering survey of ocean waves and the design and analysis of fixed and floating offshore platforms.

• YouTube
• 1 day 22 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graduate Classical Mechanics Course - Northwestern, Fall 2020

A graduate treatment of classical mechanics through conservation laws, constraints, virtual work, and Lagrangian equations.

• YouTube
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Microscopic Robots - Integrating Intelligence and Autonomous Behavior at the Cellular Scale

How integrated sensing, memory, and computing give microscopic robots autonomous behaviors such as reporting temperature and climbing gradients.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advances in Biomedical Simulation of the Human Hand

A whole-hand musculoskeletal model enables muscle-driven simulations of functional tasks involving coordinated hand movement and force.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Everything Is The Same - Modeling Engineered Systems

Shows how mechanical, chemical, and electrical systems can be described through shared mathematical models.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Grasping and Manipulation - Chapter 12

Analyze how contact types, friction, and closure conditions determine whether a robot can grasp and manipulate objects.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Wheeled Mobile Robots

Explore how wheeled robots move, including nonholonomic constraints, motion planning, feedback control, and odometry.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Robot Control

Explains how robots track desired motion through velocity and torque or force control, including force regulation and hybrid motion-force control.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Motion Planning

Explains how robots find collision-free routes through configuration space using graph and grid search, sampling, potential fields, and nonlinear optimization.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Chapter 9: Trajectory Generation

Learn to generate point-to-point and via-point robot trajectories, including time-optimal time scaling.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Dynamics of Open Chains

Derives open-chain robot dynamics through Lagrangian and Newton–Euler formulations, then extends them to task-space motion, constraints, actuation, gearing, and friction.

• YouTube
• 49 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Configuration Space - Chapter 2

Explains how a robot’s configurations, degrees of freedom, and constraints define the spaces in which it can move.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Modern Robotics - Rigid-Body Motions

Represent rigid-body motion with rotation matrices, angular velocities, exponential coordinates, homogeneous transformations, twists, and wrenches.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video