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How to get into robotics if you are a CS major
I was recently asked by a Computer Science (CS) major about a good roadmap to get into robotics. This is was my response, in case it can help someone else:
My approach to learning is normally by making. If that’s the case for you too, the best way to learn to make your own robot is starting to make your own robot. That should be the forcing function [...]
Linear algebra: to express locations and movements of the robot and other things in 3D, e.g. vectors, homogeneous matrices, quaternions… There's a lot of overlap with 3D graphics here.
Synchronization: robots are almost always distributed systems; even when there’s only one processor, there are many independent sensors and actuators that can’t be queried/commanded [...]